Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq Dar has said the economy of the country is improving gradually and economic indicators are tremendously better. He was talking to the media after the passing-out ceremony of the 47 newly-inducted Revenue Officers at the FBR Training and Research Centre in Lahore on Saturday. He said "our GDP rate and capital reflection is extremely high and inflation rate has been declined from eight to one percent."
The Minister for Finance said "our foreign reserves have also been increased from 11.5 billion to 20 billion dollars due to prudent economic policies of PML-N government. Ishaq Dar said international monetary institutions, which had abandoned their businesses in Pakistan due to the uncertain economic situation, had now resumed their entrepreneurships due to congenial and conducive atmosphere in the country. Responding to a question about the prospects of the national economy, he said there was an immense economic potential in Pakistan and the future of the economy of Pakistan was very bright. The Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Revenue, Haroon Akhtar Khan also addressed the function and highlighted various steps taken by the government for economic uplift of the country.