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Govt will present unprecedented sixth budget next year: Dar

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has claimed that the incumbent government will present the sixth federal budget next year which will be unprecedented in the history of Pakistan.

He was addressing a post-budget press conference here on Saturday.

Explaining the salient features of the Federal Budget 2017-18, the minister said that the main focus of the new budget was on growth, job creation, poverty alleviation and improving living standard of the common man.

The minister said the government will have to work hard with unity to strengthen the economy of the country.

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.