Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed the “Country Strategy Dialogue on Pakistan” organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) through a video link. He said that the main hurdle for increasing industrialization in Pakistan in the expensive electricity being made. He said that in Pakistan the cost of energy is 25 percent more than in competitors India and Bangladesh “that has impeded industrialization owing to the power agreements signed in the past.”
The Prime minister said that the government had encouraged automobile industry so that it could export from Pakistan. “There has been growth in the sales of motor cars in Pakistan and the government is encouraging electric motored vehicles,” he added.