{"id":74183,"date":"2024-03-22T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/shaza-fatima-says-tough-decisions-needed-to-save-pakistan-pakistan-observer\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:37:05","slug":"shaza-fatima-says-tough-decisions-needed-to-save-pakistan-pakistan-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/shaza-fatima-says-tough-decisions-needed-to-save-pakistan-pakistan-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaza Fatima says tough decisions needed to save Pakistan &#8211; Pakistan Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tts-play-button data-id=\"2\" class=\"tts_play_button\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD \u2013 Minister of State Shaza Fatima Khawaja said that tough decisions would have to be made to save the country.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that Pakistan would once again embark on the path of progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be improvement in the situation under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif,\u201d said Shaza Fatima Khawaja while addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Friday. PML-N leader Rana Mashhood was also present there.<\/p>\n<p>Shaza Fatima said that Nawaz Sharif also steered the country out of crises during the period from 2013 to 2017, and he demonstrated the highest growth rate in four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to enter the IMF program as soon as we came to power in 2013, and we soon got rid of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that a coalition government was formed in 2022, and Shahbaz Sharif took the charge. The country was placed on the brink of default, \u00a0she said, and Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif strengthened the country in 16 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State was of the view that as long as the youth are not given employment, the country cannot progress.<\/p>\n<p>Shaza said, \u201cWe need to bring e-governance to the country. FBR needs to be digitized and tax base needs to be increased. We have to pay interest on the budget every year,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said that they have to move forward together \u00a0and everyone has to play his\/her role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTough decisions will have to be made to save the state,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Mashhood said that unfortunately, whoever worked in Pakistan became the target of propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there was terrorism and load shedding in 2013, and Nawaz Sharif controlled terrorism and load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA false narrative was made and the nation was led to protests. Nawaz Sharif was disqualified in 2017, and the government was formed by rigging the mandate in 2018,\u201d said the PML-N leader.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they had to secure IMF program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will complete the IMF one and two programs and put the country back on the right track. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif\u2019s entire team is working day and night,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Mashhood said that no project had been given to the country since 2018, except one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lies were told to the nation. Donald Lu just spoke yesterday. Yesterday\u2019s hearing in Congress, the nation should come and ask for forgiveness. A letter was written to the IMF, and protests were held outside the IMF offices,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD \u2013 Minister of State Shaza Fatima Khawaja said that tough decisions would have to be made to save the country. The minister said that Pakistan would once again embark on the path of progress. \u201cThere will be improvement in the situation under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif,\u201d said Shaza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pakobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Shaza-khawaja.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}