ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday held a fiery press conference – flanked by his fellow cabinet members including Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Energy Khurram Dastgir Khan, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, and others.

The Ministers, in their press talk termed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) white paper on state of economy as “selective, misrepresented and devoid of economic context”.

“The PTI presentation [white paper] was selective, misrepresented and economic indicators were misleading,” Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar said while addressing a press conference along with cabinet members.

Ishaq Dar said the economy was facing challenges due to Russia-Ukraine war, adding that the country was making economic progress in the previous tenure of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). “The PTI’s tenure witnessed a spike in fiscal deficit and a downfall in remittances,” he added. The incumbent government, he said, collected over Rs3,000 billion in remittances in six months.