ISLAMABAD: The Economic Survey for the outgoing fiscal year (2017-18) was unveiled by Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Miftah Ismail and Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal here on Thursday.
The Economic Survey 2017-18 incorporates the latest figures incurred in the war against terror.
Pakistan’s total losses after becoming part of the war might have crossed the $125 billion mark in the last 17 years as it stood at $123.13 billion till 2016-17.
“The latest poverty estimates and cost of war against terror will be part of the Economic Survey for 2017-18 which will be released on Thursday afternoon,” a top official of the government had confided to The News here on Wednesday.
On the basis of new methodology, the poverty stood at 64.2 per cent in 2001 during General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf's regime which showed declining trends since 2001 and now touched below 25 per cent in 2015-16.
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