Pakistan has broken its diplomatic isolation through active diplomacy, with the country\u2019s economy now set to take off as a result of the hard work done by Prime MInister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s government, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammed Ishaq Dar, told members of the Pakistani community. \u201cWe are no longer isolated,\u201d he said at his 2-hour interaction with the Pakistani diaspora at the Pakistan consulate in New York. Pakistan now has many friends in the international community, organized two major international events recently \u2014 the SCO Summit and the Conference on Girls\u2019 Education in Muslim Communities, with several heads of state visiting the country \u2014 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent to express solidarity with the country, Senator Dar added. He also highlighted Pakistan\u2019s election to the UN Security Council, the world body\u2019s power center, with a thumping majority o 182 votes for a two-year term \u2014 2025-26. Present at the well-attended occasion were: Ambassador Munir Akram, permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United States, Riazwan Saeed Sheikh, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, alternate permanent representative to the UN, and the Consul General in New York, Aamer Atozai. In his detailed remarks, Senator Dar referred to Pakistan\u2019s ups and downs, pointing out its strong economic position under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif between 2013-17, the decline following it that brought the country to the verge of a default and the turn around led by the present government. On the economic front, he said that the inflation rate had been reduced from 40 per cent to as low as 2.4 per cent in January 2025, leading to a decline in the policy rate. Remittances have showed an increase and the exports have risen leading to stability. The situation would be further consolidated if all the political parties joined hands \u2014 without any conditions \u2014 keeping the interests of Pakistan above everything else. Pakistan must come first, he added. He urged Pakistani-American to increase their remittances and invest in projects in their homeland. In this connection, he told them to contact the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), a facility to act as a \u201csingle window\u201d to help investors, establish cooperation among all Government departments, and fast-track project development. Senator Dar said that Pakistan has bright future \u2014 it is blessed with enormous natural resources that successive government were unable to exploit but now work was in progress to tap them. He also expressed confidence that the government recently launched “Uraan Pakistan” programme would achieve all its set targets. Referring to the surge in acts of terrorism in Pakistan, the DPM\/FM said the menace had almost been eliminated from the country in 2018, however, due to faulty policies of the previous government. In this regard. he said that 3o,000 to 40,000 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters were allowed to enter into Pakistan was the main factor behind the ongoing terrorist acts Without uprooting terrorism,\u201d he added, \u201cthe country could not attain the targets of growth and development.\u201d The government was resolutely fighting to wipe out terrorism and bring peace to the affected areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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