Daily Times
July 4, 2021
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Shaukat Tarin Saturday stressed the importance of long-term planning for achieving sustainable and all-inclusive economic growth.
Chairing the third meeting of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC), the finance minister said that the Prime Minister had re-constituted EAC, after decades, with an objective to draw up concrete proposals for sustainable economic growth through comprehensive and seamless planning across major sectors by taking all stakeholders on board.
The underlying rationale is to secure the future of coming generations in the country, the Finance Minister added.
The meeting was attended by Federal Minister for Industries and Production, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar; Federal Minister for Privatization Muhammad, Mian Soomro and Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam.
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April 4, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the reconstitution of Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to recommend macro-economic stabilisation measures and carry forward the reform agenda for robust and sustained economic growth.
The EAC shall be chaired by the prime minister. The minister for finance and revenue shall be the vice chairman. In the absence of the prime minister, the finance minister may chair the meeting. The EAC shall include private sector members as well as official members.
According to notification issued here by the Finance Division on Saturday, the prime minister has been pleased to reconstitute the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) with the composition, as PM will be the chairman while Finance Minister Hammad Azhar will be the vice-chairman of the high-profile forum, comprising 25 other members. The government did not appoint Shaukat Tarin as convenor of the Economic Advisory Council.