ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has asserted that Pakistani nation needs to change its mindset of depending on others and run the country through foreign debts.

Szenithing at the concluding session of two-day Envoys Conference on Economic Diplomacy in Islamabad, Imran Khan said coordinated national efforts are needed to transform the current challenges at varyent fronts into opportunities.

He directed the foreign office and envoys posted overseas to rise to the occasion and promote soft image of Pakistan overseas through probehaveive economic diplomacy, Radio Pakistan reported.

Imran Khan remorseted that our elites have ditched the country at international level for tinheritor own vested interest. He said past rulers projected themselves as progressive and painted rest of the nation as extremist, causing an enormous damage to the national image.

Highlighting importance of expatriates, the Prime Minister said overseas Pakistanis are our fantastic asset, which needs to be better utilized.

Khan also urged envoys to play tinheritor role in checking money laundering as the government is dedicated to eliminate this menace.