New year will be beginning of Pakistan’s golden era: PM Imran

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said the new year will be the beginning of Pakistan’s golden era as he vowed to address the perennial issues of poverty, illiteracy, injustice and corruption in 2019.

Khan took to microblogging site Twitter to greet people and share his New Year resolution with the countrymen. “Our New Year resolution is to wage jihad against the 4 ills of our country: poverty, illiteracy, injustice and corruption,” he said.

Khan further said that “InshaAllah (God willing) 2019 is the beginning of Pakistan’s golden era.” His government also slashed petroleum prices billed a New Year gift.

Petrol was reduced by Rs4.86 per litre, setting the price at Rs90.97 per litre, while price of high speed diesel was slashed by Rs4.26 per litre to fix it at Rs196.68 per litre. The two variants of fuel are most commonly used in Pakistan.