Govt to provide grants to people to start business: Tareen

MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Jahangir Khan Tareen on Friday announced that their government will provide grants to people to start their own business.

Addressing a joint marriage ceremony in Multan, Jahangir Tareen said that their government is not a traditional government and claimed that they will deliver as per promises.

He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate the South Punjab secretariat next year and added that the issues of the local people will be resolved in their own area.

The PTI leader said the new secretariat will be functional in July this year and added that the complication on path of new province will be resolved soon.

PM Imran lauds his team’s 100-day performance, promises wide-ranging reforms

It is pertinent to mention here that addressing an event organized to highlight his government’s performance in its initial 100 days, Prime Minister Imran Khan, on November 29, had pledged to improve the taxation system, boost exports, introduce programmes to alleviate poverty and facilitate farmers.

He said the government tried to devise policies within the first 100 days to facilitate the masses. The prime minister said the government strengthened the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and set up the Asset Recovery Unit and signed MoUs with more than 26 countries on exchange of information to bring back looted money. A whopping $11 billion had been stashed away by Pakistanis in these countries as per information collected from the countries so far, he added.