The Federal Government will announce an “important” aid package today (Thursday), according to social media publications by the government and high -ranking officials.
The Government published on Wednesday in its official X account that “great news for the entire nation” would be announced today, without providing any details about the announcement itself. The publication had the hashtag ‘small eid, great gift’, which refers to Eidul Fitr.
Meanwhile, the ruler PML-N published that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would make an important announcement today, while a separate position said he would give “a great gift from the federal government to people.”
However, Rana Sanaullah, the prime minister assistant, wrote in X that the prime minister would announce an important help package today that “would frustrate the predetermined plot of Pakistan.”
“The value market rally, remittances increase and inflation falls: the propaganda of despair will end!” The prime minister’s advisor held in Wednesday’s publication.
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif also published about the announcement, describing it as “good news … which will be the fruit of the hard work and the result of Allah’s grace since 2022”.
He did not specify what was announced.
He added: “This development trip, progress and economic revival will continue.”
On March 26, Prime Minister Shehbaz team unlocked the new agreement of $ 1.3 billion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), along with a successful first review of the ongoing rescue program of 37 months.
The IMF revealed in March that it had allowed only one RE1 per reduction unit in the energy rate against a network tax for industrial captive electrical plants.
“The program allows a subsidy and differential income explicit tariffs of CPP companies (captive energy plants) can be used to reduce the electricity price RS1 per kWh (kilowatt-hora).
“The benefit of prices reduction will go to all,” the IMF resident resident representative in Islamabad Mahir Binici told reporters.
