Economic recovery govt’s top priority: Tarar

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday that recovery of the country’s economy and solving people’s problems is the top priority of the government.

He was talking to media persons after condoling the death of PML-N worker Attique Chaudhry with his family at his residence.

Prime Minister Youth Programme’s Chairman Rana Mashhood, Tauseef Shah and other party leaders and workers were also present.

Tarar said that due to the viable policies of the government, the value of the rupee against the US dollar had stabilised, and the inflation rate would decrease further in the coming days, the official news agency reported.

Eulogising party workers, he said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz always stood by the voice of its workers and sacrifices of political workers had strengthened democracy.

The federal information minister said that the first priority of the government was to restore the economy and solve the problems of people. “In this regard the government is working day and night. Due to the timely and positive steps taken by the government on the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the value of the rupee has stabilised,” he added.

He was confident that inflation would decrease further in the coming days.

To a question, he said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, for the first time in the country’s history, had sent set documents to all ministries for achieving short and long-term goals such as reduction of inflation, solution to economic problems, and ending unemployment.

He said that strict instructions had also been issued to the ministries for timely achievement of the goals, adding that the prime minister would review the performance of all ministries related to these goals.

Tarar further said that the PTI government had created numerous economic crisis, due to which the PML-N in the previous allied government had focused on measures to restore the economy in the last 16 months. By overcoming these problems, he said, the PML-N is all committed to pull the country out of the crises it is facing and turn it into an economic hub.

Earlier, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar and Prime Minister Youth Program Chairman Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan expressed their heartfelt condolences to the family of Attique Chaudhry and paid tribute to him for his services. They also offered Fateha.