ISLAMABAD: The federal government has released the Country-wide Economic Survey 2025-26, which describes the performance of the entire financial year. According to the details, the federal government has formally released the national economic survey for the fiscal year 2025-26. The development has drawn significant attention from observers and officials across the country.

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To put this in perspective, analysts point to a number of relevant factors.

Federal Minister of Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb said in a press conference in Islamabad that despite internal and external challenges and severe universal and regional uncertainty, the country's economy has shown better performance and the rate of economic expansion has been recorded at 3.7 percent this fiscal year.

Explaining the characteristics of the survey, the Finance Minister said that the economic survey reflects the economic performance of the entire financial year.

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Specialists in the field say the implications extend further than initially apparent.

He clarified that the government was confident that Pakistan's economic rise would exceed 4 percent this year, but unfortunately, the economy was affected due to the global situation caused by the Iran war and unusual monsoon rains in the country and the target of 4 percent could not be achieved.

It has also emerged that he said that the global economy has also shrunk from 3.7 % to 3.1 %, while the imposition of new tariffs by the United States on various countries of the world also created severe economic uncertainty at the global level.

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This marks the beginning of a process whose full implications are yet to be determined.

The Finance Minister reported that the country was facing severe economic uncertainty in the first month of this financial year and these challenges tested the ability of the Pakistani economy, but the existing government was able to fight all these crises due to its excellent policies, which led to the stability of the country's economy.

In a detail that has not gone unnoticed, the Minister of Finance, while presenting the data of the agricultural sector, which is considered as the backbone of the economy, said that the overall economic growth target was 4 percent although the achieved rate was 3.7 percent.

In a detail that has not gone unnoticed, similarly, the growth target of agriculture sector was set at 4.5 % but due to bad weather and other factors, this rate was limited to 2.9 % this year.

Of particular significance is the fact that he vowed that the government will accelerate the pace of development through economic reforms and structural changes in the coming financial year.

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With key questions still unanswered and the situation continuing to develop, observers are watching closely for the next steps. This outlet will continue to provide updates as the story progresses.