ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged all the political leadership to continue lending their helping hands to the federation in overcoming the economic challenges, which was requisite to financial and political stability in the country.
The prime minister also clearly linked the stability and peace in the county with complete elimination of the specter of terrorism, which had resurfaced its head recently in southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
Addressing a meeting of the apex committee of the National Action Plan attended by the political and military leadership, the prime minister said with the grace of Allah Almighty, the economic efforts and sincerity of purpose, showed by all the stakeholders in the governments from the provincial chief ministers to the federation, the country was moving on the path to stability.
He commended the efforts put forth by all the federal and provincial governments, saying that without it, they could not move forward.
The prime minister said the economic and political stability were interrelated with each other and no society could aspire to progress with these two vital factors.
“It is imperative for the economic and political stability that all the leadership should play their due role,” he added.
He also thanked the provincial governments for their support in getting the approval of IMF programme, adding that all the provincial chief ministers had fully supported it.
Prime Minister Sharif said that as result of these efforts, stock market was on the bullish trend, inflation dipped to a single digit, State Bank of Pakistan also curtailed its interest rates mark to 15 percent, besides country’s IT export witnessed a record surge while the remittances saw significant increase.