Wheat worth Rs280b procured to ensure food security: Dr Hafeez.

ISLAMABAD -- Adviser on Finance Dr Hafeez Shaikh has said government in its first two years paid huge amount of debt worth Rs5000 billion and brought current account deficit down to three billion dollars.

Addressing a post budget webinar, he said when PTI government came into power Pakistan was facing economic crises which forced it to take IMF economic package.

He said before the coronavirus outbreak, the country's exports had begun to move up.

He said in wake of the pandemic, government has given 16 million...