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Pakistan PM Imran Khan says rising foreign debt a 'national security' issue

 He said that due to lack of resources the government had little to spend on the welfare of the masses

Imran Khan

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that the rising foreign debts coupled with low tax recovery had become a “national security” issue because government did not have enough resources to spend on people’s welfare. Our biggest problem is that we don’t have enough money to run our country due to which we have to borrow loans, Khan said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Track and Trace System (TTS) of the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) for the sugar industry in Islamabad.

He said that due to lack of resources the government had little to spend on the welfare of the masses. Khan said that the rising foreign debts and low tax revenue had become an issue of “national security”. He lamented that the prevailing culture of not paying taxes was a legacy of the colonial period when people disliked to pay taxes as their money was not spent on them…Read More

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