Giving NRO is easy, but it is path to destruction: PM
mise," he said, perhaps hinting at the political choices he faces these days.
The "easy way" is to "forgive them all and give an NRO". "Our lives will also become easy. We will do speeches in parliament and three or four years will go by. But, this is the path to destruction," he warned.
He added that the path to betterment is never easy and people therefore have to make "difficult decisions" that, in the future, define them. Earlier in his address, PM Imran expressed his happiness and congratulated NUST on achieving the feat of producing locally made stents.
PM Imran said that in Pakistan and the world, "most people die due to heart diseases", noting that it was an expensive treatment. He said the locally produced stents will benefit the country by saving foreign exchange (by preventing imports) as well as helping treat more poor patients as they will be cheaper in comparison.
"You saved our foreign exchange [reserves] and gave us the opportunity to provide treatment to more poor patients," PM Imran Khan told the gathering. PM Imran noted that exports of the country had fallen, adding that no country can prosper when "dollars go out more" and are "coming less" in the country. He added that, due to this factor, the country has to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the country's "dollars decrease and reserves deplete".
"Reserves will fall when there is a trade gap of $40 billion, the pressure will fall on foreign exchange reserves," he explained. He also added that the same problem also causes inflation in the country.
"If we want to develop our country, more dollars should come in to the country than than they go out," he said. He shared the example of China and Turkey, which he said had prioritised exports, saying that China's wealth increased when their exports went up.
Hitting out at the Opposition on Friday, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that giving an ' NRO' - relief from corruption cases - to his opponents is an "easy path" for him to take, but it is the "path to destruction". "We have to make difficult decisions and difficult decisions take us forward," PM Imran Khan said while addressing an inauguration ceremony at NUST, Islamabad.
He said the country was "going in the right direction", and that giving an NRO at this moment would be the easy way out from the difficulties he faces as premier.
"Many times in life, we have the choice of walking two different paths. We are encouraged to take the easy way out," he said. "You wake up in the morning and you have all the dacoits gathered up against you, and [you want to] go for the easy way and compro
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