Former prime minister Imran Khan laid out a 10-point recovery plan to steer Pakistan out of an economic crisis at his Lahore power show where he addressed a massive public gathering.
The public gathering was delayed due to road blockades in Lahore and Imran Khan reached the venue after 11:30 pm, where he received a thunderous welcome from the charged crowd, including families, waving PTI flags.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan delivered a lengthy speech, more like a pre-election pitch, and detailed a 10-point economic recovery plan to steer the country out of the crisis, stressing the need to increase exports and investment.
“Overseas Pakistanis are the biggest asset of the country. If we fix our governance system, the rule of law” then expats will be motivated to invest in Pakistan to attract foreign direct investments, Khan said.
As long as the country won’t have an enabling environment for investment, no government could bring that money to Pakistan, he said.
“Dollars flow in with increasing exports, but we never tried it,” he said. “We will divert the whole country toward exports. Whoever would bring dollars to the country by selling goods will be provided facilities.”
Other points of Khan’s recovery plan included promoting information technology (IT), tourism, mineral exploration and agriculture in the country of 220 million.
Imran Khan’s 10-point recovery plan included these key sectors:
- Bringing investment of overseas citizens in Pakistan
- Enabling exports
- Tourism
- Minerals
- Small and Medium Industries
- Agriculture
- Reorganization of major cooperation
- Enlarging the tax net
- Prevention of Money Laundering (Rule of Law)
- Welfare programs for disadvantaged persons
