Islamabad: The Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting to review the progress on the projects of national importance, which are being funded by the both bilateral and multilateral international partners.

The meeting was attended by the Minister Economic Affairs Division, Law Minister, Attorney General, SAPM Tariq Bajwa, Foreign Secretary, Special Secretary Finance Division, Secretary EAD and his team.

Ishaq Dar stressed the need for timely execution of projects so that funds committed by international partners are utilized in most efficient manner and guided the relevant quarters to have an effective system in place for periodic progress reviews of these projects.

Meanwhile Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting on Friday to review the overall economic situation.

The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, Minister of State for Finance Bilal Kiani, Special Assistant Tariq Bajwa, the Finance Secretary, the Chairman FBR and his team. The Finance and FBR teams shared the statistics regarding the first quarter of the current financial year.

The participants were also briefed about the recent discussions held with the visiting IMF Mission. Ishaq Dar expressed his satisfaction on the performance of economy despite disruptions caused by the floods.