Amir Muqam says govt’s economic policies yield results

MINGORA: Federal Minister for Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir Affairs and States & Frontier Regions Amir Muqam on Sunday said that the federal government was making untiring efforts for revival of the economy and promotion of trade and investment in the country.

Addressing the concluding session of the two-day Swat Trade Show 2024 here, he said that the trickled down effects of prudent economic and fiscal reforms had started yielding results and the price-hike was slashed down to a single digit. He termed the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP)’s efforts for empowerment and promotion of local businesses as positive.

Amir Muqam said that the Swat trade show would help provide opportunities to local traders in expansion of their business and attract investment besides enhancing the country’s economy significantly.

The federal government under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was making solid efforts to resolve the economic issues in the country, he said, adding the prime minister and his team were making untiring efforts to put the country back on the road to economic prosperity.

Reiterating the sacrifices rendered by the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially of Malakand Division and Swat for peace and stability of Pakistan, Amir Muqam said that PTI’s politics of agitation was no solution to the KP’s problems and expressed the hope that focus would be made on the law and order situation besides resolution of the masses problems in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He claimed that a huge amount was being spent on carrying out malicious propaganda on social media against state institutions which was highly deplorable.

He said that politics of hooliganism and propaganda against state institutions was not in the country’s interest, hoping that PTI would use the government resources on the welfare of masses.

He said that the then PTI government had pushed the country towards bankruptcy while the Shehbaz Sharif government had saved the country from an economic default.The minister said that the economic situation had started improving in the country“The measures taken by the Shahbaz Sharif government are being praised in the world and Pakistan’s economic outlook has improved significantly,” he added.

Amir Muqam said that the federal government was ready to cooperate with the KP government in all sectors, including law and order and health. He added that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had given mandate to PTI for resolution of their problems and not for carrying out an uncalled for agitation for the release of the PTI founder.He said that the PTI had disappointed people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as it had failed to deliver on all fronts.