PTI leader Farrukh Habib, in a press conference, highlighted Pakistan’s economic woes, saying that the growth rate of the country today has dramatically fallen as compared to that in the PTI’s tenure.

Even our exports, remittances and agricultural output have fallen to tremendous levels this year and they are further expected to drop in the upcoming months, he stated.

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