Govt trying to manage financial matters without IMF: Minister for Education

February 6, 2019: Federal Minister for Education & Professional Training, National History and Literary Heritage Shafqat Mahmood on Wednesday said that the Finance Minister Asad Umar and his economic team was trying that the government should manage country’s financial matter without approaching International Monetary Fund (IMF) for bailout package.

The incumbent government was taking consolidated steps to revive exports and trade volume, besides bringing back foreign investment to boost national economy, he said while talking to a private news channel.

Moreover, he said that the government was taking concrete steps for putting the country on right path of development and prosperity.

He said the top most priority of the government was to further increase the country’s exports with all the countries including China, Japan, Indonesia, besides promotion of the local industry.

This year, he said, the government would make a huge break-through in country’s exports products and the exports figure would be much higher as compared to the previous exports targets.

(APP)