Population, water scarcity, malnutrition three major challenges.
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers while participating in the budget debate Wednesday termed population growth rate, malnutrition and water scarcity as three major challenges Pakistan would be facing in future if not addressed right now.
He said that there was need to focuses on preventive health strategies rather than curative one.
He said that rising population was another challenge the country would be facing if not given proper attention at the current time.
Leghari said that the prudent policies by the government had put the economy on growth path as there has been 5.3 percent growth rate recorded during the outgoing fiscal year while the inflations has been contained at 4 percent.
He said that Pakistan Stock Exchange was also performing very well.
He suggested enhancing regional trade with neighboring countries to enhance exports, which have witnessed negative growth during the growth during the outgoing year.
He stressed the need for improving distribution network system to overcome power shortages and also advocated for providing net meters to consumers which would also help overcome energy crisis.
Taking part in discussion, Naseema Panazai claimed that discrimination was being meted out with the female lawmakers in allocation of funds and they were not given a signal penny to them during the last four years.
Taking part in the budget discussion, Iftikharuddin congratulated the government for presenting the federal budget for the fifth consecutive time.