After Ishaq dar takes the charge as new Finance Minister, the Federal government decided to talk with IMF in order to provide some relief and reduce petrol prices.
According to the sources, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will hold negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for reducing the prices of petroleum products and also urged the IMF to take other steps to provide relief to the nationals.
According to reports, petroleum product prices will be reduced after the approval of the IMF. The finance ministry further said that the final decision regarding the relief steps will be dependent on IMF’s approval.
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While talking to the media, newly appointed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that improvement in the exchange rate was his first and controlling inflation second priority.
“Zubair Umar and Miftah Ismail did their best. The dirt of four years could not be cleaned in six months,”
“Pakistan has been saved from bankruptcy, we will further improve it,” Dar said. “Give me a few days, presently I could not say anything about fuel prices,” he added.
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