CM aide assails PM for failure on economic front

PESHAWAR: Advisor to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Finance and Inter-Provincial Coordination Muzzamil Aslam on Thursday criticized Prime Minister and his ministers for not admitting their failures rather celebrating unemployment and business closures in the country.

“According to the Bureau of Statistics, over 63,000 people have left Pakistan for abroad in January 2025 alone in search of employment opportunities,” said an official handout quoting him as saying.

He said that during the tenures of the Pakistan Democratic Movement and Shehbaz Sharif government, over two million people had migrated from Pakistan.The advisor said if this rate continued, approximately 750,000 people were expected to migrate annually.

He termed this the largest migration in Pakistan’s history, saying that if these two million people send back just Rs75,000 monthly, the country would receive approximately $6.5 billion annually.

However, he argued that this increase in remittances was not a sign of progress but rather a decline, emphasizing that two million educated and skilled individuals had left the country.Aslam also said that Pakistan’s average annual growth rate over the past three years had been less than 1.5 percent, while the population growth rate stood at 2.5 percent.