Pakistan (Wednesday, 9:30 AM)

Diplomacy is a process; it is not an event. Having said that, whatever is happening, including Pakistan, everyone is affected.

Digital, I just look at it very simply: It's faster, cheaper, better, whether it's our remittance flows, whether it's what we're doing in terms of reformation of our tax authorities. So the more automation, more end-to-end digitalization, the less human interaction [and] less leakage, which is an euphemism for corruption.

In terms of how we are dealing even in the current crisis, because we moved from blanket subsidies to now target subsidies, the best way we could have done it is transmitting it . . . through digital wallets . . . it gets to the recipient, and we are sure that it gets to the right areas which are vulnerable.

We want to move with all our partners from aid to trade . . . So yes, with the Trump administration, we are very focused on the trade and investment agenda.

We do want to accelerate our journey towards renewable energy . . . I think that's one very clear [lesson] from this supply side shock.

Muhammad Aurangzeb Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Pakistan