{"id":307655,"date":"2023-01-16T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=307655"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:35:35","slug":"miftah-stresses-need-for-thinking-about-countrys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/miftah-stresses-need-for-thinking-about-countrys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Miftah stresses need for thinking about country\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE<br \/>\nFormer finance minister Miftah Ismail stressed on Sunday the need to think about the country\u2019s future. Ismail was addressing an event in the Alhamra hall, during which he lamented the worst situation of the governance in the country.<br \/>\nTalking about his tenure as the finance minister, Mr Ismail said, \u201cWhen I was removed from the post, the country\u2019s situation was far better, but now the old tradition of giving subsidies has been adopted.\u201d<br \/>\nSpeaking on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr Ismail said, \u201cDuring the Covid pandemic, the IMF provided the country with plenty of relaxation.<br \/>\nIn 2021, the IMF programme was reinstated. \u201cWhenever the government leaves, it spends lavishly.\u201d<br \/>\nMr Ismail emphasised the importance of changing the country\u2019s infrastructure and stated that there was a time to raise taxes and increase the percentage of schoolchildren\u2019s education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Former finance minister Miftah Ismail stressed on Sunday the need to think about the country\u2019s future. Ismail was addressing an event in the Alhamra hall, during which he lamented the worst situation of the governance in the country. Talking about his tenure as the finance minister, Mr Ismail said, \u201cWhen I was removed from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Miftah stresses need for thinking about country\u2019s future<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/miftah-stresses-need-for-thinking-about-countrys-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Miftah stresses need for thinking about country\u2019s future\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE Former finance minister Miftah Ismail stressed on Sunday the need to think about the country\u2019s future. 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