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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Attaullah Tarar, criticized Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Thursday, stating that individuals involved in last year’s May 9 attacks are now jeopardizing national interests.
Speaking to the media, Tarar emphasized that those who undermined the country’s interests were adversaries of Pakistan. He expressed dismay at prioritizing political agendas and ego over national interests, highlighting the regrettable pattern of PTI leadership disowning statements against the country’s interests.
Tarar noted that PTI leaders were embroiled in corruption cases, lamenting that enemies of Pakistan struggle to accept investments in the country. He prayed for divine guidance for such individuals to speak in the country’s favour. The minister condemned the actions stooping to anti-national levels, stressing that while criticism of the government and its policies is acceptable, criticizing Pakistan is intolerable. He acknowledged the support of friendly countries in investing and cooperating with Pakistan, expressing optimism for progress with Allah’s grace.
Attaullah Tarar also affirmed Pakistan’s commitment to strengthen relations with friendly countries. Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Thursday stressed the need for enhanced collaboration between the public and private sectors to fast track the process of economic development of the country.
Addressing the First Pakistan Semiconductor Summit, he said that the Special Investment Facilitation Council had been set up to attract investment in Pakistan and ensure ‘ease of doing business’. He said it was main thrust of the government policy to encourage innovation and investment in the country. He said that Pakistan, as the fifth largest democracy in the world, was endowed with great natural resources and its biggest resource was its human resource. ” We are blessed with a huge population of youth which constitutes 68 per cent of its population”. That is a huge potential which we can offer to the world, he added.
He said Pakistan was strategically located at the crossroads of the world which was a source of pride for the nation. He said that the Government of Pakistan as a policy encouraged innovation and investment in the country which this summit was offering precisely – a collaboration between public and private sector. He said that the federal cabinet meeting on Wednesday had approved a public private partnership policy framework to eventually facilitate investment in the country.
He said that the job of the government was not only to regulate but also facilitate investment. He said unfortunately sometimes governments forgot their primary responsibility as a facilitator which hampered the investment. He said that the government could fulfil this responsibility through collaboration between public and private sector and by ensuring ‘ease of doing business’. He said that Pakistan has been producing 50,000 engineering graduates every year and it has the best engineering universities in the world.
