Pakistan has to be made a hard state from a soft one: DG ISPR Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry

RAWALPINDI, July 11 (SABAH): Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant  General Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry has said that mafias are working openly in our country and smugglers are not getting punishment, Pakistan has to be made hard state from soft.

DG ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry talked to students and teachers of the universities during which he told that 126 intelligence-based operations are conducted daily in the country to combat terrorism and these operations are based on intelligence. DG ISPR said that Pakistan has to be made a hard state from a soft one. He said mafias are working openly in our country and smugglers are not getting punishments. Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that Afghan transit trade goods are smuggled and then come to Pakistan.

He said that there is tax evasion of several thousand billion rupees at Karachi Port, adding the fake economy is stronger than the real economy in our country. He said the size of our real economy is $350 billion, adding if we control the fake economy, the size of the real economy is will be one thousand billion dollars. He said that through

Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), they undertaken to fix the economy, the investors coming from outside had serious problems here in NOC. He said that now Information Technology (IT), exports of rice and wheat have increased, adding if the situation remains the same, the country will move forward very quickly. He further said that the Afghan Taliban provide help to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to come to Pakistan.