*ISLAMABAD: Former Finance Minister Senator Shaukat Tarin on Wednesdayclaimed that Chief Economist Pakistan Ahmed Zubair has resigned after hewas being pressurized to change data on GDP. *
Taking to Twitter to make the announcement, Tarin asked the incumbentgovernment why they are bent on ruining the institutions. “The facts cannotbe suppressed,” he said and claimed that Dr Zubair was being forced tochange GDP data.
Shahbaz Gill also tweeted on the matter saying that previously PML-N’sIshaq Dar was caught red-handed while changing data on GDP and later termedit a typo error. “They have once again resorted to same tactics,” he said.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz(PML-N) government has tried to downplaylinkGDPgrowth for the fiscal year 2021-22 by pressurizing the department ofstatistics.
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The Shehbaz Shareef led PML-N government reportedly pressurized thedepartment of Statistics and force them to show the GDP growth from 4.5% to5.5%.
Sources say that the PML-N government does not want the department ofStatistics to show a higher growth rate as its credit would go to the PTIgovernment directly. Industrial production went up by 10.4% from July toMarch, it said.
