ٖFederal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has said that rising inflation has hit the growth rate in the country, bringing it down by 2 to 2.5 per cent. His admission came just days after the government claimed that the growth rate had increased to 5.37%. Tarin said that the 5.37% growth rate for the fiscal year 2021 was remarkable but the economy would grow at the rate of 5% in the current fiscal year. He also hinted that prices my not go down for the next three months. Earlier, government ministers had claimed that inflation will slow down by April 2022. The finance minister said that inflation was caused by international price rise. The government suffered from the four big.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday has rejected the mini-budget tabled by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led federal government.