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Development linked to good relations with 4 strategic partners: Ahsan

Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal Wednesday said Pakistan’s economic development was linked with good relations with its four strategic partners including US, Europe, Gulf States, and China. “If we want to see our country developing fast, we will have to maintain good relations with these countries,” Ahsan Iqbal said while addressing the inauguration of PIDE RASTA conference here.

He said Pakistan’s development journey was moving in a circle. Ahsan Iqbal said when in 1988 Muhammad Khan Junejo government was toppled with a single signature by the then President, he was much upset and decided to struggle for the supremacy of the constitution and democracy of the country.

He said with regret he had to say that no solid progress had been observed during these 35 years and same thing were still happening now. He said in 1980 the per capita income of China was $200 while that of Pakistan was $380. Similarly, in 1960, Pakistan’s exports were $200m while now it had hardly reached $25b. South Korean exports, on the other hand reached over $700b now from mere $100m in 1960.

The minister feared that if we do not come out of that circle, we will be even behind Afghanistan when we will be celebrating 100 years of Independence Day in 1947. He said one thing was common among the countries who were developing fast that is political stability, continuity of policies and rule of law.

The countries, he said with no stability and with discontinuities of the policies could never develop. “If there are reversal of policies every now and then, then how far we hire the most efficient and intelligent people, we will not be able to develop economically. The minister added that the current fiscal year’s development budget was Rs900b, but by the last quarter of the year, it confined to only Rs500b and the finance division had no funds to release for the development projects under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2021-22.

He said when no one in the world was ready to invest even a single penny, China came forward and made investment worth of billions of dollars under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

But unfortunately, he said there was no significant investment in the country under CPEC during previous four years. He directed Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) to do research work that how to take maximum benefits from the mega project of CPEC.

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