Pakistan aims to be world's sixth-largest economy by 2050, says PM Shehbaz Sharif
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has set an ambitious target for Pakistan to reach the sixth-largest global economy ranking by 2050, revising earlier projections.
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