Web Desk – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the completion of the one-year of coalition government marked a successful tenure that resulted in Pakistan’s restored credibility, and overcoming of the country’s financial and energy challenges.
“I can inform people that over the last one year, we have largely succeeded in establishing Pakistan’s credibility as a partner and friend,” he wrote in a Twitter thread. PM Sharif said, “Today marks the completion of one year since I took oath as PM of a coalition government. This has been a time of massive challenges and difficulties.
“It was a long journey, but sustained efforts made it possible,” he said. Sharif recalled that the passage of no-confidence vote against former prime minister Imran Khan Niazi’s government was unprecedented.
“[It was unprecedented] not because the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) came into power, but because almost all of Pakistan’s political forces came together to use the forum of parliament to vote out an unpopular govt through constitutional means,” he said.
The prime minister said the coming together of political parties with different manifestos for a common national cause represented a “major step forward in the country’s political evolution”.
“Reconciliation and cooperation, instead of confrontation and vendetta marked the new politics post-April ’22,” he said.
He said despite the economic landmines laid by Imran Khan and the disruptions in global fuel and food supply lines, Pakistan’s economy continued to stay afloat.
“All predictions of default turned out to be false alarms. Sincere efforts are underway to revive the economy,” he said. Sharif said the coalition government has been at pains to repair, rebuild and deepen Pakistan’s diplomatic relations that were dealt a severe blow by the ‘Niazi regime’.
He said Pakistan faced unprecedented floods last year. The decisiveness with which the government undertook rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts, provided social protection to millions of people and mobilized international community has been acknowledged by the world as outstanding, he added.
He mentioned that the government employed climate diplomacy to present Pakistan’s case on the international stage.
“As Chair of G77 plus China, we were instrumental in the establishment of loss and damage fund. Pledges of US$ 9 billion at Geneva moot are evidence of our successful diplomacy,” he said. He said in the last one year, the coalition government made efforts to diversify the energy mix with the aim to provide relief to the citizens.
