PM Imran Khan to chair meeting of economic team

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair a meeting of his economic team today to review the financial conditions.

Imran Khan will also issue directives for providing relief to the people during the meeting.

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The meeting chaired by the prime minister will be attended by Adviser on Finance, Hafeez Shaikh, Adviser on Commerce, Abdul Razak Dawood, Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Shabbar Zaidi.

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Earlier today, Adviser to the PM on Finance Hafeez Shaikh shared the news of the country’s exports recording a 9.6 percent increase in October.

Earlier on Tuesday, the prime minister posted on twitter that the current account of Pakistan turned positive in October 2019, for the first time after a gap of four years.

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In another tweet, he mentioned that for the first four months (July-October) of the current fiscal year, the current account deficit has fallen by 73.5 percent as compared to the same period of the previous year.