Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb says government is actively facilitating foreign direct investment that contributes of creating exportable surplus in key sectors. 

Presiding over a meeting in Islamabad on Monday, he reiterated the role of banking and financial sector in unlocking and expanding such strategic opportunities, especially in logistics, trade facilitation, and industrial support.

The Minister said that the objective is not to pursue rapid and unsustainable expansion, but to ensure that the economy grows on a durable, investment-led, and export-oriented basis.

Muhammad Aurangzeb stressed the importance of developing a robust mechanism for providing formal cash flow-based credit to smallholder farmers without collateral by leveraging fintech solutions such as remote sensing and embedded finance in line with the vision of the Prime Minister.

The session focused on aligning the financial sector and its lending to priority sectors with the government's agenda of driving an export-led economic revival and future growth.