Federal Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq has stressed the need of judicious and transparent utilisation of foreign funds on development projects and said their speedy implementation would facilitate achievement of government's objective of inclusive high growth besides bringing about progress and economic well being for the people of the country. He also stressed expeditious resolution of issues that hindered realizing any project.

The Finance Minister stated this while chairing a meeting of the senior official of Economic Affairs Division (EAD) to review progress on foreign funded projects here on Tuesday.

Secretary EAD gave the meeting an update on different ongoing and planned projects with financing from Asian Development Bank, DFID, World Bank, AIIB, and other multilateral and bilateral development partners. Secretary EAD also gave a briefing on the Pak-German government to government negotiations on economic cooperation being held in the EAD. Ishaq Dar also reviewed preparations for Pakistan delegation's participation in the Golden Jubilee 50th annual meetings of the ADB scheduled to be held at Yokohama, Japan from May 4 to 7, 2017.

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