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[00:00:11] Terrorists from Fitna-e-Hindustan failed in their attempt to disrupt
[00:00:14] the peaceful movement of people on Pakistan Highway near the Quetta
[00:00:18] in Balochistan. Security forces, in an operation against terrorists,
[00:00:21] killed five terrorists. 23 abductees were rescued,
[00:00:25] and a large quantity of weapons, ammunition, explosives and
[00:00:28] other materials were recovered.
[00:00:57] marches, we talk about
[00:01:35] Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar left for New York to attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
[00:01:38] He will represent Pakistan in the meeting with Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.
[00:01:42] The Deputy Prime Minister will also represent Pakistan in several high-level meetings on the issue of Palestine
[00:01:45] for Pakistan's strong support for the rights of the Palestinian people, including Pakistan's continued support for the Kashmiri people's right to self-determination
[00:01:49] at the OIC Contact Group meeting on Jammu and Kashmir.
[00:01:53] عوام کے حق میں پاکستان کی مضبوط حمایت کے لیے فلسطین کے مسئلے پر
[00:01:57] کئی اعلی سطح اجلاسوں میں بھی پاکستان کی نمائندگی کریں
[00:02:00] گے۔
[00:02:06] Security forces completed their operation in Kohat Police Lines, all terrorists involved in the blast were killed. The last two suicide bombers
[00:02:10] hiding in the police lines were also sent to hell. A total of seven terrorists
[00:02:13] were killed. The General Officer Commanding Kohat directly supervised
[00:02:17] the operation. Commandos, soldiers and bomb disposal squad of Pakistan Army cleared the area
[00:02:21] and handed it over to the police. Kohat Police have traced the links of the mosque bomb blast
[00:02:24] to Afghanistan. One suicide bomber was identified as
[00:02:28] an Afghan citizen named Matiullah.
[00:02:32] شہری مطیع اللہ کے نام سے
[00:02:33] ہوئی۔
[00:02:40] Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi visited the residence of martyred Captain Hamza Akram
[00:02:44] and met with the martyred's father and brother. He expressed deep sympathy and
[00:02:47] condolences. He offered Fatiha for the elevation of the martyred's ranks.
[00:02:50] The Interior Minister praised the high morale and spirit of martyred Captain Hamza Akram's father.
[00:02:56] up to 800cc, there will be a rebate of The nation cannot repay the sacrifices of the martyred and their family. "Martyred Captain
[00:03:00] Hamza is alive in our hearts and will always remain alive," Mohsin
[00:03:03] Naqvi said.
[00:03:11] The Ministry of Information strongly condemned the Kohat
[00:03:14] terrorist incident. The Kohat attack was carried out by
[00:03:17] i.e., I for Islamabad, the worst terrorists with roots in Afghanistan. Pakistan is gravely concerned about the use of Afghan soil.
[00:03:20] The threat of serious consequences to Pakistan by
[00:03:22] G for Gilgit Baltistan, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
[00:03:24] S for Sindh, is condemnable.
[00:03:26] P for Punjab, The condemnation of the Kohat attack by the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs is
[00:03:29] not enough. Verbal sympathy must be converted into concrete and verifiable actions.
[00:03:32] Pakistan has the full resolve and capacity to eliminate the threats of terrorism from everywhere.
[00:03:36] Statement by the Ministry of Information
[00:03:40] and Broadcasting.
[00:03:42] نشریات۔
[00:03:48] We are ready to go to any extent to protect the Haramain Sharifain. Saudi Arabia's security is Pakistan's
[00:03:52] unconditional commitment. This commitment is long-standing, emotional, and unwavering.
[00:03:55] Pakistan's political and military leadership is in continuous contact with the Saudi
[00:03:59] leadership. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia stand
[00:04:02] shoulder to shoulder. No one should have any doubt that Pakistan is practically present in Saudi Arabia
[00:04:05] for assistance.
[00:04:09] General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry's interview
[00:04:13] to Arab
[00:04:14] News.
[00:04:20] India is patronizing terrorism in Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban regime should prevent the use of Afghan soil
[00:04:23] against Pakistan. If the Afghan Taliban regime does not fulfill its promises,
[00:04:27] then Pakistan has the full right to defend itself.
[00:04:31] Nearly 80% of suicide bombers are Afghan citizens.
[00:04:35] through sit-ins, Terrorists in Balochistan are trying to impose their false ideology at gunpoint.
[00:04:38] The state's policy is very clear that there will be no negotiations
[00:04:41] with terrorists.
[00:04:45] نہیں
[00:04:45] ہوگی۔
[00:04:53] Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif's special petrol relief scheme directs to include
[00:04:57] 20-year-old motorcycles, rickshaws and Chingchi rickshaws.
[00:05:46] Secretary of the Iranian National Security Council, Mohsen
[00:05:49] Rezaee.
[00:05:54] We will review Saudi military needs in cooperation with Pakistan. Saudi Arabia is being attacked
[00:05:58] by Houthi militias. Proposals have been sent to all
[00:06:02] parties to end the war. It is unacceptable to make Saudi Arabia
[00:06:05] a part of the US-Iran war. The Middle East
[00:06:09] crisis has become economically unbearable.
[00:06:22] The tense situation in the Middle East has prompted the US to advise its citizens to be cautious. The ongoing fighting between Saudi Arabia and Russia could rapidly escalate. Citizens in Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Jordan are advised to be extra cautious. Iran and its supported groups may target American interests or American citizens. The US State Department.
[00:06:26] بڑھ سکتی ہے عراق بحرین عمان سعودی عرب ایران قطر لبنان
[00:06:30] کویت اور اردن میں موجود شہریوں کو زیادہ محتاط رہنے کا
[00:06:33] مشورہ ایران اور اس کے حمایت یافتہ گروہ امریکی مفادات یا
[00:06:37] امریکی شہریوں کو نشانہ بنا سکتے ہیں امریکی محکمہ
[00:06:40] خارجہ۔
[00:07:26] Assalamu Alaikum, you are watching Pakistan Television News. I am Manazar Hussain. You have seen the news headlines.
[00:07:30] Stay with us for more news and updates.
[00:07:33] رہیئے۔
[00:07:42] Prime Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif has announced a special petrol
[00:07:46] rebate for motorcycles, rickshaws, Chingchi
[00:07:49] loaders and other two and three-wheeled
[00:07:52] passenger or loader vehicles. A weekly discount of Rs. 500
[00:07:55] is now available. Now, instead of 15 years, 20-year-old
[00:07:59] two and three-wheelers will also be able to benefit from this scheme,
[00:08:03] meaning those whose registration is after January 2006. While for small cars
[00:08:08] Rs. 100 per liter for every 10 liters every 10 days.
[00:08:12] To get the rebate, in your mobile message,
[00:08:16] type G
[00:08:18] (space) ID card number (space)
[00:08:22] vehicle registration number (space) the first
[00:08:26] letter of the province where your vehicle is registered,
[00:08:30] A for Azad Jammu Kashmir,
[00:08:38] K for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
[00:11:26] And some that we have, our full effort has been and will be to
[00:11:29] also reduce our expenditure, both have contributed to bringing
[00:11:33] down the size of that deficit. Similarly, our
[00:11:36] current account performance
[00:11:40] from last
[00:11:43] to last year, it was a surplus after 14 years.
[00:11:46] Last year, we were essentially
[00:11:49] square, so roughly our account was balanced,
[00:11:53] and the same trend
[00:12:25] in goods exports,
[00:12:27] we have started moving in the right direction, and all of this is
[00:12:31] contributing to the account's
[00:12:34] definition.
[00:12:37] One percent of GDP
[00:12:40] remained limited. Similarly, GDP
[00:12:42] growth is
[00:12:46] I would like to remind everyone that a few years ago, our economy actually
[00:12:49] contracted. So last year, there was
[00:12:53] a 3.7 percent
[00:12:57] growth. Inshallah this year, more than 4% is expected,
[00:13:01] and there are a number of contributing
[00:13:05] factors. Our large-scale manufacturing
[00:13:08] also showed a very good recovery last year,
[00:13:12] and if I look at July and August, there is an increase month
[00:13:15] on month and also year
[00:13:18] on year. So, therefore, this
[00:13:21] is also moving, moving.
[00:15:26] So, naturally, we are also affected
[00:15:30] and the whole world is affected.
[00:15:33] ہے۔
[00:15:37] There is a wave of terrorism
[00:15:40] in some provinces right now. You
[00:15:44] just saw the Kohat incident. How many of our
[00:15:47] young men were martyred. This is an irreparable
[00:15:49] loss. And our
[00:15:53] enemy countries and forces
[00:15:57] are behind it. But our army, our civil armed
[00:16:01] forces are doing
[00:16:04] much and they
[00:16:08] are ready to fully confront them, and at this moment,
[00:16:11] they are confronting them.
[00:16:14] I want to mention
[00:16:18] that if you look at this background,
[00:16:22] that when we talk and
[00:16:25] we face these difficulties, now in this
[00:16:29] background, when we come and talk about long
[00:16:34] strikes, we talk about sit-ins,
[00:16:37] then ladies and gentlemen, I will just say
[00:16:41] that this will be self-inflicted pain. For some days,
[00:16:45] a wing of our Planning Commission has been working with
[00:16:49] us on this, and we have done a lot
[00:16:52] of work on it. That
[00:16:56] if this economic stability that we have achieved
[00:16:59] with great effort, difficult decisions,
[00:17:02] and continuous efforts, this
[00:17:06] journey of economic stability that we have started.
[00:17:37] There will be a loss of 120 billion
[00:17:40] rupees on a daily basis.
[00:17:44] So, we have also looked at it sector-wise a bit.
[00:17:48] The biggest loss is estimated in the services sector,
[00:17:52] which includes finances,
[00:17:55] communication, transport, retail, wholesale,
[00:17:58] hospitality. And in this,
[00:18:01] there is an apprehension of a loss of approximately 86 billion
[00:18:04] or 86 Arab rupees daily.
[00:21:20] So, I will just say that
[00:21:24] we have seen this in the worst-case scenario. This
[00:21:28] amount goes down by almost
[00:21:31] 50 percent on a daily basis,
[00:21:34] and you can imagine
[00:21:37] what a loss we will incur if we have this
[00:21:40] kind of disruption, and
[00:21:44] especially how big a loss it will be to our growth
[00:21:47] trajectory.
[00:23:20] This will be a very big setback
[00:23:23] for us if we
[00:23:26] go for these long marches and
[00:23:30] sit-ins.
[00:23:31] The next one, I will just say
[00:23:35] that look, when
[00:23:38] there is an economic problem, I have already given you a big macro picture
[00:23:42] that its daily
[00:23:45] loss
[00:23:49] is a
[00:24:50] I will just say that it is our collective responsibility
[00:24:52] that we are now on a journey from
[00:24:56] social stability to economic development,
[00:25:00] towards exports, towards investment. When we talk about investment,
[00:25:03] I will tell you that
[00:25:06] the number for
[00:25:08] August has come.
[00:25:12] ہے۔
[00:25:16] 31 million dollars of FDI.
[00:25:20] I agree with all of you that FDI needs to increase,
[00:25:22] but there is a whole cascade, a system,
[00:25:26] that first economic stability comes, which I call basic hygiene. After that,
[00:25:30] our local investors gain confidence, which is what we are seeing
[00:25:33] in the privatization of PIA and other things. I just talked about
[00:25:37] the stock exchange, so in that regard, what has already happened,
[00:25:41] and after that, foreign investors come.
[00:25:44] But we have already seen its beginning.
[00:25:48] So, the request is that whatever problems
[00:25:52] we have, we should sit down and resolve them
[00:25:56] with each other, and this
[00:25:59] that we are talking about
[00:26:32] Long live
[00:26:34] Pakistan.
[00:26:37] You were watching an important discussion with Federal Finance Minister Senator Muhammad
[00:26:40] Aurangzeb. He said that our journey is moving from economic stability
[00:26:44] to economic development. Foreign exchange reserves
[00:26:47] have reached an all-time high in the country's history.
[00:26:51] The fiscal deficit has significantly decreased. Expenditures are also
[00:26:54] being reduced. The current account is in surplus. Remittances
[00:26:58] are also continuously increasing. The export
[00:27:01] sector is also moving in the right direction. Regarding the Pakistan Stock Market,
[00:27:05] Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb said that the number of investors
[00:27:08] in the Pakistan Stock Market is increasing, which reflects positive
[00:27:12] economic indicators. He expressed hope
[00:27:16] that the pace of economic development will further accelerate.
[00:27:19] Unfortunately, everyone is affected by the situation
[00:27:22] in the Middle East. The Finance Minister further added that enemy
[00:27:25] forces are behind the terrorism happening in the country.
[00:27:29] Our journey is moving from economic stability
[00:27:33] to economic development. Talking about foreign exchange reserves, he said
[00:27:36] that they have reached the highest level in the country's history.
[00:27:40] Talking about the fiscal deficit, he said that there has been a significant reduction
[00:27:44] in the fiscal deficit, and in this context, expenditures are also
[00:27:47] being reduced to further ensure economic stability.
[00:27:51] Talking about the current account, Finance Minister Muhammad
[00:27:54] Aurangzeb said that the current account is in surplus,
[00:27:58] and remittances are also continuously increasing.
[00:28:01] The export sector is also moving in the right direction.
[00:28:04] The number of investors in the Pakistan Stock Market is also
[00:28:08] increasing. In this regard, we will talk more with our
[00:28:12] correspondent Dr. Shahid. Dr. Shahid, please inform us that Federal Finance Minister
[00:28:15] Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb has made important statements and has specifically
[00:28:19] talked about economic stability. In particular, he has talked about
[00:28:23] remittances, the stock market, and the current account being in surplus.
[00:28:27] How important are these three points for the foundation of a stable economy?
[00:28:31] مستحکم معیشت کی بنیات ہے
[00:28:34] Yes, you are absolutely right, and Federal Finance Minister
[00:28:38] Muhammad Aurangzeb basically spoke in the context
[00:28:41] that due to the difficult decisions taken in the last three years and the reforms
[00:28:45] implemented, the process of economic stability is almost
[00:28:49] complete. And now, this process of stability
[00:28:53] needs to be maintained to transform it into sustainable
[00:28:56] development or to deliver its benefits
[00:28:59] to the public. It is extremely important to maintain it.
[00:29:03] During his press conference, he said that our current account deficit
[00:29:07] has been largely brought under control. Regarding the budget deficit,
[00:29:10] he specifically said that it has reached a 22-year low
[00:29:14] because the government has significantly reduced its expenditures,
[00:29:18] and also, due to the digitalization of FBR, revenues have also significantly increased.
[00:29:22] So, because of this, the government's fiscal deficit
[00:29:25] has been largely brought under control.
[00:29:29] On the other hand, he said that since the government has worked
[00:29:33] on a reform agenda, and because of this, the confidence of
[00:29:37] our domestic investors has also been restored, and also
[00:29:41] our diaspora, our working class in foreign countries,
[00:29:45] their confidence in the government of Pakistan
[00:29:48] and its policies has also increased,
[00:29:51] due to which remittances have significantly increased.
[00:29:54] So, this process of development, the macroeconomic
[00:29:58] indicators that we have, our GDP indicator, our
[00:30:05] our current account indicator, all of these
[00:30:09] are on an upward trajectory. So, in this perspective,
[00:30:13] the Federal Finance Minister said that basically, all
[00:30:16] these things are hard-earned gains, and they should not be
[00:30:19] reversed so easily. This
[00:30:23] press conference was in this perspective, that basically the Ministry
[00:30:27] of Finance has conducted a study according
[00:30:31] to which if anyone tries to derail this
[00:30:34] continuity of development and stability
[00:30:37] strikes, or
[00:30:41] blocking roads, then in that
[00:30:45] context, this press conference was held to show that if
[00:30:49] such an unpleasant incident occurs, then
[00:30:52] the economy will suffer a loss of approximately
[00:30:56] 120 billion rupees per day.