Patriot Web Desk: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission chief to Pakistan Herald Finger has denied the reports that IMF has given Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar the ‘Finance Minister of the year 2016 for South Asia’ award.
Addressing newsmen via video link on Thursday, Herald Finger clarified that the organisation had no link with the magazine who gave the Award to Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.
“The IMF is not involved with the Emerging Markets publication,” said Wafa Amr, IMF’s Washington-based media contact person for Pakistan, who was also present at the occasion.
What adds insult to the injury of finance ministry is that the latest edition of the magazine show that five Pakistani state-owned enterprises funded the Emerging Markets edition that carried a supplement on Pakistan. The Minister had received messages of appreciation on his ‘bogus’ award from many high profile government officials including none other than Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.