Islamabad: Pakistan’s diplomatic isolation has ended while the country’s economy is improving, Ishaq Dar
While holding a press conference in Islamabad, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch has been appointed as Pakistan’s ambassador to France. In the next few days, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch will assume her duties in France. Foreign briefings will be given.
He said, 2024 was an important year for us. After the election, people gave mandate to PML-N, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was elected, many challenges were faced, it was said that Pakistan is suffering from diplomatic isolation, in our era all sectors I started work.
Deputy Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has said, that 40,000 to 45,000 TTP members came back to Pakistan and at the same time he has raised the question of who played their borders over a cup of tea and who killed TTP members.
The Foreign Minister said, that the Prime Minister presented the “Udan Pakistan” road map to the nation the day before yesterday. Pakistan has a 5-year plan in June. The Prime Minister presented the economic road map to the nation on December 31. Inflation is around 5%, foreign exchange reserves are increasing.
Ishaq Dar said, there have been positive indicators in the GDP, the government is also trying to fulfill the promise it made to the nation, there were many reasons for the burden of electricity on the people, during the period of Nawaz Sharif, the dollar was 104 The dollar rate skyrocketed, the impact was painful.
The Deputy Prime Minister said, that there is stability in the rupee since last year, export, IT and other sectors are increasing. Relief was given to consumers, 50 billion in electricity bills in summer and 57 billion rupees in Punjab.
Ishaq Dar said, the storm of inflation used to come every week, it is not now, the inflation has now reached 5%, Prime Minister gave relief in electricity bills with all courage and effort, summer is coming again, the Prime Minister is working more for electricity relief. are attached.
Foreign minister said, it was said that we are suffering from diplomatic isolation, it was almost a reality, our effort was to increase our diplomatic footprint, neighbouring countries, Central and South Asian countries were on the agenda of the government. In a year, the narrative of diplomatic isolation has blown away, today Pakistan is fully activated, the Foreign Office is fulfilling its responsibilities on all forums.
He said, efforts were made for 10 months of 2024. On the first day, he said in the Foreign Office that he would also work on economic diplomacy. Economy is now the name of the game in the world. Civil nuclear energy used to be heavily criticised. At the Nuclear Industry Summit, the world agreed, we had finalised the Chashma Five agreement with the PDM government, the Chashma Five project with China has started.
He further said, Chashma Five will be successfully completed, K-2 and K-3 nuclear projects were started in Karachi during Nawaz Sharif’s time, both K-2 and K-3 projects are of 2500 MW, both projects are successfully completed. have reached completion.
Deputy Prime Minister said, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia came to Pakistan on our invitation in April, successful meetings were held, discussions were held on multilateral and global issues, the high delegation of Iran also visited Pakistan, the World Economic Forum was held in Saudi Arabia. Pakistan participated in the World Economic Forum.
In one year the impression of diplomatic isolation or the reality that was there has been blown away, the foreign office had come and said that now we will do economic diplomacy, I will visit Bangladesh, Bangladesh is our brother. I will provide all kinds of support, I will also visit Bangladesh, said Ishaq Dar
Ishaq Dar said, till the year 2018 we had cleared Pakistan from terrorism, the return of TTP and the release of criminals by the previous government was a wrong decision, terrorism is a scourge and TTP is involved in it.
