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Former finance minister Shaukat Tarin announced on Friday that he had decided to quit the PTI and politics for good, citing financial and health reasons.<\/p>\n
Tarin told Dawn.com<\/em> that the last two-and-a-half years had been \u201cvery challenging\u201d for him, both financially and due to his \u201cdeteriorating health\u201d after \u201cdouble Covid episodes during my time in office\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cTherefore, at the insistence of my family and friends, I have decided to resign from active politics for good and move on,\u201d Tarin said. \u201cHence, I am resigning from PTI and also from the Senate of Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank all those colleagues and friends who have helped me along this journey,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Tarin also said that over his political career, he had helped different political parties manage the economy.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2008-10 as finance minister under PPP, I helped save the country from impending default and stabilised the economy. Also concluded a consensus on National Finance Commission award after 19 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He went on to say that as the finance minister during the PTI government, he \u201cclocked the best economic performance in 17 years as stated in the economic survey of Pakistan of 2022\u201d.<\/p>\n Tarin said that he tried to pay back the country for the last 27 years at \u201cgreat personal costs\u201d as he followed in the footsteps of his father, a Pakistan Movement veteran.<\/p>\n