Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Political Communication DrShahbaz Gill on Sunday announced that the government is going to raisesalaries in the upcoming budget 2021-22.

“We are going to make an announcement regarding an increase in salaries ofthe government employees in the upcoming budget,” he said while addressinga presser.

In the last year‘s budget, the federal government did not announce a raisein salaries of the government employees and pension of the retired onesciting an economic contraction owing to COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Shahbaz Gill further speaking on the economy said that it was due tothe efforts of Prime Minister Imran Khan that GDP growth rate has reachednear 4 percent.

“The growth rate is estimated at four percent this year despite the countryfacing pandemic,” he said adding they had stabilized the economy after itwas near default when the PTI assumed power.

Our textile exports have increased with exports touching a 10-year high,followed by a four-year record being broken in the stock exchange, the SAPMsaid.

He lauded the overseas Pakistanis for sending remittances to Pakistan inrecord number and said that the prime minister has always respected thePakistani diaspora, who have been denied the right to vote by the previousregimes.

“We will give them the right to vote and participate in the politicalprocess,” he said.