PML-N demands to include Hafeez Shaikh, Reza Baqir's name on the ECL.

ISLAMABAD -- Alleging of damaging country's economy, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday demanded to put the names of Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance D Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and State Bank Governor Reza Baqir in the Exit Control List (ECL).

Speaking on the floor of the Lower House the Parliament, Khawaja Asif said that the government was drawing back economically; in fact, it has acknowledged defeat without saying it publicly, adding that now the government was following the IMF's lead.

The PML-N leader said that the tax revenue of the Naya Pakistan stands where it was in the previous government's tenue. He said that the during the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's tenure, growth in gross domestic product (GDP) was 5.5 percent, the same under Prime Minister Imran Khan s "Naya Pakistan" was -0.4%, adding that today, Bangladesh is ahead of us in every aspect of the economy.

Asif went on to say that the growth in agriculture, large-scale manufacturing, industrial, and service sectors were 4%, 5%, 4.9%, and 6.2%, respectively...