PTI chief laments absence of long-term planning to overcome economic challenges
\nISLAMABAD
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan lamented that there had never been long-term planning to lift the country\u2019s economy or to protect its environment.
\nHe was addressing a seminar pertaining to Pakistan\u2019s economy in Islamabad on Tuesday. He said he learned about the economy of Pakistan during his 3.5 rule. The ex-PM recalled how overseas Pakistanis helped him built welfare projects like Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital.
\nTaking a jibe at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), he said that the commission must have seen \u2018foreign funding\u2019 during a telethon for fundraising for flood victims on Monday.
\nImran Khan said that if they get in power again, they would come prepared as \u2018out of the box\u2019 thinking was required to run Pakistan\u2019s economy now. PTI chairman said they have decided to form an economic team to assess how to run the economy as it would help the government in coping with challenges.
\nCensuring the coalition government in the center, he said that during their four months in power; they have devastated Pakistan\u2019s economy and put the country on backtrack. There had never been long-term planning to lift economy or to conserve water or protect the environment.
\nEven during the Covid-19 pandemic; the then-opposition pushed them to impose lockdown without caring about the poor, he said. Imran Khan iterated that the steps taken by the incumbent government during its brief tenure nowhere features the poor.
\nThe challenges are big now, and it would be required to take big steps to pull the country out of the economic crisis it is mired in currently. He talked about engagement of overseas Pakistanis for achieving the goal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PTI chief laments absence of long-term planning to overcome economic challenges ISLAMABAD Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan lamented that there had never been long-term planning to lift the country\u2019s economy or to protect its environment. He was addressing a seminar pertaining to Pakistan\u2019s economy in Islamabad on Tuesday. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n