Finance Minister of the Bajwa-Nawaz regime informed the nation of a 2% growth in the services sector, at the cost of industrial and agriculture sectors, within the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Thus, the share of the services' sector increased to 59.6%, against decreases to a 19.5% share for agriculture and a 20.9% share for industry. Pakistan is a country which has been blessed by Allah (swt) with vast agricultural lands, rivers, canals, mineral and human resources.

The believer begins to prepare their state of mind and heart and body for the blessed month of Ramadan. This preparedness needs contemplation of sorts…often delving into the heart to sort through the undesired traits and feelings that somehow drift and simmer in the heart starting with a black spot on the heart and slowly multiplying, Allah forbid it remains a permanent mark.

Ahead of the annual budget announcement, the Bajwa-Nawaz regime's boasts over the economy are far from reassuring, but expose sinister signs of the further collapse of Pakistan's economy. The latest boast is that imports have increased, which is actually a sign of the last breaths of our own dying industry, injured by energy shortages and choked by excessive taxation.

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