Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Saturday said that the interim government would focus more on rationalizing the expenditures, generations of revenue and development of human resource during its short constitutional period. Talking to a delegation of students from Harvard University US, the prime minister said that in Pakistan, about 9 percent population was contributing towards GDP with their taxes. How to bring the undocumented economy, people in the tax net and how to invest in the human resources would be broadly focused during the short period of the caretaker government, he added. Caretaker govt to focus on revenue generation, human resource development: PM The prime minister said Pakistan was gifted with the natural resources and was a country of talented people. He said the government was focusing to produce the high-tech educated and skilled human resource and cited a couplet of Allama Iqbal in which he had hinted the importance of human resource through individual and collective efforts. \u201cPakistani diaspora in the US is a success story itself,\u201d he said, adding the Americans knew the Pakistanis who were contributing in their society. Responding to a question, he said Pakistan had been the biggest victim of climate disaster which was a global issue. The climate change had become an existential threat, he added. Caretaker govt to focus on revenue generation, human resource development: PM He opined that the world viewed the US as a big power but at the same time, expected it to turn itself into a green power. Appreciating the progress achieved by the American society, he said the diversification in the US society was an example for other countries to follow, adding their society was tolerant and what the US had produced in the domains of knowledge and skills was amazing. Caretaker govt to focus on revenue generation, human resource development: PM The caretaker prime minister said the other countries ought to learn from it for their own benefits. Replying to a query, the prime minister elaborated the role played by Pakistan during the former USSR and Afghanistan war and the subsequent events in the region. He said Pakistan had contributed hugely towards the global peace and economy. They had faced a lot of challenges in the past as the two powers of the world; the US and Russia, had been in its milieu which had implications, he added. PM Kakar, explaining a viewpoint, said that priorities by different governments in Pakistan kept on changing, but they did have visions and tried to visualize those visions. He also deliberated upon the history and creation of Pakistan. The prime minister, to another question, said that democracy gave strength to parliament and mentioned that in Pakistan, in the last fifteen years, three successive democratic governments had completed their tenures. \u201cDemocracy is a process. We are committed to the performance and participatory process of democracy,\u201d he said. The prime minister also underscored the importance of continuation of the social order and the maintenance of rule of law. The prime minister said that Pakistan had been positively engaged with the US on different issues, adding there were also conversion and diversion between the both countries on various global issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Saturday said that the interim government would focus more on rationalizing the expenditures, generations of revenue and development of human resource during its short constitutional period. Talking to a delegation of students from Harvard University US, the prime minister said that in Pakistan, about 9 percent population was contributing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n