{"id":138932,"date":"2019-12-28T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=138932"},"modified":"2019-12-28T00:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:45:47","slug":"traders-investors-have-important-role-in-turning-pakistan-into-economically-strong-welfare-state-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2019\/12\/traders-investors-have-important-role-in-turning-pakistan-into-economically-strong-welfare-state-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders, investors have important role in turning Pakistan into economically strong, welfare state: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-138932-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"557\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PM-Imran-Khan-addressing-Awards-distribution-ceremony-of-Pakistan-Stock-Exchange-@-Khi-17-12-2019with-Logo.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PM-Imran-Khan-addressing-Awards-distribution-ceremony-of-Pakistan-Stock-Exchange-@-Khi-17-12-2019with-Logo.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PM-Imran-Khan-addressing-Awards-distribution-ceremony-of-Pakistan-Stock-Exchange-@-Khi-17-12-2019with-Logo.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>KARACHI, Dec 27 (APP):Highlighting the importance of traders and investors in turning Pakistan into an economically strong and welfare state as envisioned by the country\u2019s founding fathers, Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said the government would extend all possible facilities to the business community in that respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) was also a trader,\u201d he said while speaking at the award distribution ceremony of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Top 25 companies were given awards on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the fear of any action or probe by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against traders, the prime minister said the government had promulgated an ordinance, insulating the businessmen from any NAB action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur contention is that NAB\u2019s job is to hold the scrutiny of public office-holders. For the scrutiny of businessmen, there are other institutions, including the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR),\u201d he said and congratulated the business community on this development.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said the vision of Pakistan, which was also provided in the Objectives Resolution, was based on the principles of Madina State.<\/p>\n<p>The two basic fundamentals of that vision, he said, were compassion and justice. Any country could be turned into an independent and great nation by following the two principles.<\/p>\n<p>The State of Madina, which was run on those two basic fundamentals, defeated the two superpowers of that era and transformed the Muslims into a great nation that ruled the world for 700 years, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said the same vision provided a direction and road-map to achieve the objectives of Pakistan\u2019s creation, and the businessmen and traders had an important role in that regard through wealth creation.<\/p>\n<p>He cited a modern era example of China, which focused on trade and wealth creation, and lifted 700 million people out of poverty in 30 years. The government\u2019s job was to facilitate and the traders had to focus on wealth creation, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said the present government during the last one year alone had got the country improved in terms of ease of doing business in the world by 28 points as against the previous government\u2019s 2013-18 tenure when Pakistan was put on the brink of economic and institutional collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the criticism over him for referring the past situation, he said his government did not inherit the economy of Sweden, rather the country was faced with the situation of Rs 30 trillion loans.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Khan said besides presenting his government\u2019s performance before the nation, he would continue to remind the people of past economic situation over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>APP\/ND\/Farooq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Dec 27 (APP):Highlighting the importance of traders and investors in turning Pakistan into an economically strong and welfare state as envisioned by the country\u2019s founding fathers, Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said the government would extend all possible facilities to the business community in that respect. \u201cOur Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PM-Imran-Khan-addressing-Awards-distribution-ceremony-of-Pakistan-Stock-Exchange-@-Khi-17-12-2019with-Logo.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-556.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138938,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138932\/revisions\/138938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}