New York (TDI): Pakistan has broken its diplomatic isolation through active diplomacy, with the country’s economy now set to take off as a result of the hard work done by Prime MInister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar told members of the Pakistani community on Monday evening.
“We are no longer isolated,” Dar said at his two-hour interaction with the Pakistani diaspora at the Pakistan consulate in New York.
Pakistan now has many friends in the global community, hosted two major international events recently — the SCO Summit and the Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities, with several heads of state visiting the country — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent to express solidarity with the nation, he added.
He also underlined Pakistan’s election to the UN Security Council, the world body’s power center, with a thumping majority of 182 votes for a 2-year term —2025-26.
Present at the well-attended occasion were Ambassador Munir Akram, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, Ambassador to the United States, Riazwan Saeed Sheikh, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, alternate permanent representative to the United Nations, and the Consul General in New York, Aamer Atozai.
In his address, Dar said that the inflation rate had been reduced from 40% to as low as 2.4% in January 2025, leading to a decline in the policy rate.
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Remittances have showed an increase and the exports have increased leading to stability, he said.
He urged Pakistani-American to increase their remittances and invest in projects in Pakistan.
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In this connection, he told them to contact the Special Investment Facilitation Council, a facility to act as a “single window” to help investors, establish cooperation among all Government departments, and fast-track project development.
He also expressed confidence that the government’s recently launched Uraan Pakistan programme would achieve all its set targets.
