Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has said that people of Pakistan including PTI workers laid the foundation of new country by defeating the outdated and corrupt system on July 25, 2018. Talking to media on Saturday, he said that the countrymen rejected the privileged and corrupt system based on nepotism and favouritism by electing PTI in 2018 general election. Shibli Faraz said the founders of the outdated system had only pursued their personal interests by ruining the national institutions and economy. When PTI came to power, the country was mired in the debt trap, and was facing serious economic difficulties and challenges.
The nation under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, he said, set
off on the path of reforms with a new determination. The coronavirus pandemic was not only fought and contained but also the lives and livelihood of the people were protected under the vision of prime minister, he added.
He said the PTI government adopted a successful foreign policy while vigorously highlighting the Kashmir issue at the international level. The incumbent government started journey of development in the country through successful Kamyab Naujawan programme, uniform curricula, the Billion Tree Tsunami project, acceleration in work of China Pakistan Economic Corridor projects, start of dams construction and the housing project for low-income people, he added.
The struggle for the progress and prosperity of the country would continue under the PM’s leadership, Shibli Faraz said.