ISLAMABAD:

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Sunday framed the IMF’s recent ‘Governance Diagnostic and Corruption Report’ as an opportunity to fast-track institutional reforms, insisting the assessment should be viewed as a catalyst rather than criticism of government policy.

Addressing a press conference, he said the government itself had requested and facilitated the study as part of its commitment to transparency, noting that the IMF had acknowledged progress in taxation, governance, public financial management and procurement.

While many priority reforms were already under way, he added, the remaining recommendations would be advanced to address structural weaknesses that had persisted for decades. “Institutional reform remained essential to sustaining Pakistan’s economic turna

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