On Wednesday, under the Finance Bill 2021, in the National Assembly, the Imran Khan government imposed GST at the rate of 17 percent on 144 goods. After which the opposition created a ruckus. The opposition described PM Imran Khan as the biggest tragedy of this century for the country.
Pakistan has come up with a new trick to get out of poverty and attract more investment. Under this, Pakistan has decided to offer a permanent residency scheme to wealthy foreign nationals, including Sikhs living in the US, Canada, Afghanistan and China. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry announced via tweet that the new plan is in line with the new National Security Policy, which was formally announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday.
Geo-economics has a main place in the new national security policy.
Pakistan declared geoeconomics as the core of its national security doctrine through the New National Security Policy in which the government decided to allow permanent residence scheme for foreign nationals. The new policy allows foreigners to obtain permanent resident status in return.
Attracting rich Afghans to the agenda
While sharing the background of the plan, according to The Express Tribune newspaper, a prominent federal minister said that one of the aims of opening the PR scheme was to attract wealthy Afghans, who have lived in Turkey, Malaysia and some other countries since the Taliban regime came. I was going
PM Imran Khan introduced the country’s first national security policy
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday presented the country’s first national security policy, which has been prepared on a citizen-centric framework. In this, the country has been kept at the center of economic security rather than a one-pronged security policy focused on military might. Earlier, the Pakistan NSA said, this policy mentions that India should increase regional connectivity for the betterment of the people so that the region can be saved from harm.
Releasing the public version of the security policy approved by the National Security Committee and the Cabinet last month, Imran said previous governments had failed to strengthen Pakistan’s economy. He said that national security has been clearly defined in the 100-page fundamental document. This policy has been designed keeping citizens at the center and economic security has been made at the centre.
