Islamabad :
Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen has said that the budget should not be criticized without any reason. The job of the opposition is only to criticize. If the previous government was so tolerant, then why the deficit of 20 billion? We didn’t have a dollar printing machine so we had to go to the IMF.
Speaking in the National Assembly, he said that the prices of agricultural commodities have risen sharply all over the world but we have taken care of the country’s industries and agricultural sector along with the poor in the budget. All the banks are providing easy loans for construction of houses. Shaukat Tareen said that now our focus is on increasing exports. The housing industry will take off.
The housing industry will run 40 industries. Imran Khan paid attention to the housing industries, the opposition should give him some credit. Ehsas program is ranked fourth in the world. He said that now we are moving towards growth.
Poor people used to dream, now they are going to interpret them. I will give a detailed speech in this regard on June 24. The Finance Minister said that we are working on agriculture. If we give loans to farmers then production will increase. We will put the local industry on its feet. We also want to increase IT exports. Shaukat Tareen said that due to the steps taken by the Prime Minister, the economy has started improving.
The government should not give this political color to the current budget and should not call us liars. Food items became expensive because we did not have enough wheat and sugar. In addition, 70% of pulses are imported. Nothing has been done in agriculture in the last 20 years.
“Negotiations are underway with the IMF. We will do our best to achieve the target we have set,” he said. Have to
