SBP supported economy sinking due to pandemic.

KARACHI -- Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Monday said State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) buoyed the sinking economy amid the pandemic.

Governor SBP Reza Baqir should take more steps to boost the economy and push up the growth rate to five percent by the next fiscal, he said.

Mian Zahid Hussain said that the central bank supported the masses and businesses amid pandemic which out the economy of the path of growth for which the governor SBP deserves credit.

Talking to the business community, the veteran business leader said that hundreds of billions were spent on relief while lockdown, travel...