Minister for Petroleum and Energy Musadik Malik said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is looking to bring down political and social tension in the country.

The PM on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting, laying down a comprehensive roadmap for the country’s economic resurgence over the next half-decade.

“In such a tense situation, even a house cannot run, let alone a country,” he said, adding that “we need to show tolerance while maintaining differences so that a tolerant future could be given to a growing population”. However, he did not spell out the required measures in this regard.

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