Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, in his address on Tuesday marking the onset of the new year, called upon the nation to unite in their efforts to build a better and more resilient Pakistan in 2025.
In a PM office news release, he congratulated the entire nation on the arrival of the new year. “I pray that the sun of 2025 will rise with the promise of progress and prosperity for our country Pakistan. I also pray that in the new year we correct our individual and collective mistakes committed in the past year and make a new beginning and start a new bright future,” he said.
PM Shehbaz Sharif prayed that the economic, political and law and order crises that the world faced in 2024 would be overcome by positive progress in the new year. May the new year prove to be the year of ending hunger, poverty, war, terrorism, crimes, sectarianism and class division from the whole world including Pakistan, he said.
The year 2024, he said was a year of great achievements for the country, adding, “Our economic indicators improved during 2024. International financial institutions expressed their confidence in Pakistan. Investment agreements worth billions of rupees were signed with friendly and brotherly countries and the work on digitization of the economy started.”
PM Shehbaz Sharif also underscored that the government had officially launched the National Economic Transformation Plan titled “Udaan Pakistan” – Pakistan’s Flight which was his government’s commitment to give a new dimension to the economy, promote inclusive growth and achieve sustainable development.
“As we enter 2025 and put the economy on the path to self-reliance, today we commit to a stable, bright and prosperous future,” PM Shehbaz said.
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Shehbaz Sharif added that the year 2024 was the worst year for Israeli atrocities in Palestine, in which the Israeli occupation forces had created stories of cruelty that had no precedent in recent history.
In the same way, he said the oppressed brothers and sisters in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir were victims of the brutality of the Indian occupying forces.
“I hope that in 2025, Palestine and India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir will be successful in their struggle for freedom,” he prayed.
In 2024, he said the brave security forces achieved success against terrorists. In this war against terrorism, the brave soldiers of the security forces sacrificed their lives, whose sacrifices the nation would remember forever, the prime minister added.
“I pray that 2025 will be a year of good fortune and immense happiness for our nation. Long live Pakistan!,” the prime minister said.
