ISLAMABAD. Finance Minister Finance Shaukat Tarin on Saturday claimed that the financial sector was stable and the government was continuously bringing reforms in different sectors, adding that it was working on sustainable growth up to 5 per cent that would boost up to 6% further.

Talking to the PTV News programme, he said that several reforms had been made in the industrialisation, housing and the agricultural sector. Moreoer, the Kamyab Jawan program, health card scheme, and the Ehsaas program were results of the government’s efforts, he added.

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Tarin said the government was trying to maintain balance among the upper, middle and lower classes by making and launching such programmes so that the public could take benefit from economic growth.

The finance minister reiterated that the price of oil had been increased overall, however, the government was providing worth Rs1.2 trillion of subsidy to the public on the fuel package. "Although the fuel rate needs to be increased yet the government has decreased to facilitate the people and for this neither we have disturbed the budget nor have taken loan," Tarin said, adding that the structural reforms would be "good" in the long term for the economy.