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Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Wednesday termed the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year “positive and relief-oriented”.
He made the remarks while speaking at a media briefing alongside State Minister for Finance Bilal Azhar Kayani. At the outset, the information minister said that certain segments were criticising for the sake of criticising.
“When Pakistan was on the brink of default … our macroeconomic indicators were at their lowest,” he said. He alleged that some government officials “went on holiday”, saying that they did not want the country to default during their tenure.
He recalled that at the time, no one was ready to work on the economy.
