He said: "As a President my first priority would be to make sure that Pakistan's economy maintains its growth trajectory and its effects trickle down to the people for improvement in their living standard." He asked the caretaker Cabinet to remain neutral to establish its credibility for January 8 elections and make all possible arrangements to make them free, fair and transparent.
He said that holding of general elections was a big challenge for the caretaker government and it must come up to the expectations of all parties. He recalled the events of last few months, and Shaukat Aziz's government's economic achievements.
He said that Pakistan's economy absorbed big shocks like October 8, 2005 earthquake and many others during the last few years and it was time to take judicious decisions to make sure that the economy did not suffer any setback.
He said the caretaker government was required to do even more hard work and make Pakistan stronger in all senses. Musharraf said that as President he would be available for the government for all-out support to achieve the objectives for which they have been brought in.
He added that Pakistan was making good progress on economic front for the last five to six years for maintaining economic growth rate over 7 percent for the last four consecutive years. He noted that Pakistan's key fundamentals were indicative of promising economic growth but some unfortunate developments badly affected the economic growth to reverse the process.
He said the caretaker government was a good combination of experienced economists, technocrats and politicians and it should deliver on all fronts to make sure that Pakistan maintains the journey of success in coming years.
He directed for taking all-out measures to overcome the shortage of electricity and other inputs to facilitate the industrial sector for improving its efficiency and produce more for getting more share in the global market for increasing exports to a reasonable level.