Improved World Bank ranking huge achievement for Pakistan: PM Imran

Improved World Bank ranking huge achievement for Pakistan: PM Imran
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Summary PM Imran chaired a meeting of government's economic team in Islamabad on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed the government s commitment to provide all out facilities to domestic as well as foreign investors.

He was chairing a meeting of government s economic team in Islamabad on Saturday.

The Prime Minister while appreciating the performance of relevant departments and officials in improvement of Pakistan s ranking in Ease of Doing Business said this is a huge achievement for the country.

He expressed satisfaction that economic indicators are on positive trajectory with value of rupee stabilizing and stock market indicators moving upward.

The Prime Minister said continuous meetings are aimed at giving the impetus to the wheel of economy.

He said now the mission of economic team should be on promotion of construction and small business sectors in order to generate employment opportunities and to run the economy on fast track.

Imran Khan also directed to provide facilitation to overseas Pakistanis in their remittances.

Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed the confidence that Pakistan will become one of the top places for investment before the end of next year.

In a tweet on Thursday, he said the government has fulfilled another of its manifesto commitments by showing improvement in the ease of doing business.

He said Pakistan has achieved the biggest improvement in its history in the World Bank s Ease of Doing Business rankings. He said over the last decade Pakistan s ranking had slipped more than fifty places. Now, we have improved twenty eight places from 136 to 108.

Congratulating the hard work of his team, the Prime Minister said we still have a long way to go.

 

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