DUBAI – Pakistan PM Imran Khan made a keynote address at the WorldGovernment Summit Dubai.

The government has implemented an ambitious reform programme in Pakistan,Prime Minister Imran Khan said while addressing the World Government Summiton Sunday.

‘Reform programmes are painful but essential,” he remarked. “Reforms arepainful. People suffer a lot. Think of it as a surgical procedure beingperformed on a person. The patient suffers for a while but then herecovers.” The worst thing for a society is to postpone reforms, he added.

PM Khan said that the government wants to improve Pakistan’s economicpolicies. “We want to cut down our fiscal deficit, improve our exports andcut down imports. The bills have gone up, obviously,” he remarked.

The premier arrived in Dubai on Sunday afternoon to attend the seventhedition of the world summit in Dubai.

He said that the Abu Dhabi crown prince advised him to allow businesses tomake money. “If businesses make money, only then more people will invest ina country. We are working on ease of business. We are changing our taxlaws,” he said.