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  • Finance Minister says the government has succeeded in achieving more than five percent annual GDP growth

    Muhammad Ishaq Dar AFP Photo Muhammad Ishaq Dar

    Finance Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar has said that the government is committed to widening the tax net by bringing the non-filers into the tax net.

    Addressing a function in Karachi, he said the issue of withholding tax on non-filers would also be resolved at the earliest.

    Ishaq Dar said present government had succeeded in achieving more than five percent annual growth of Gross Domestic Product while target for next two years is seven percent GDP growth.

    He said SMEs are the backbone of the economy and we must strengthen this sector.

    Ishaq Dar said that after the revival of the economy, the next target of the government is maximum economic growth and more employment generation during the next two years.

    The Minister said for achieving this target, the government had focused on energy sector and up to March 2018, 10,000 MW would be injected into the system.

    He informed that there are also other projects in pipeline to generate another 14,000 MW electricity from different sources.