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Pakistan’s central bank has said that controlling inflation and having a vibrant financial sector are the top two priorities while supporting the government for implementing its economic growth policies comes at third place. Speaking at the sixth “Pakistan Leadership Conversation 2023”, organised by the ACCA on Wednesday, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Deputy Governor Sima Kamil said that the central bank had three clear objectives at present. “First (is) price stability, second (is) financial sector stability, (and third is) supporting the government’s economic growth policies as long as first two objectives are not compromised.” She said the central bank had planned to deploy Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the near future to improve work on price stability, as stable inflation would provide a strong basis for sustainable economic growth. “We at SBP are now strengthening our statistical department. In future, we will utilise Big Data and AI to improve the quality of data for measuring CPI for inflation while tracking multiple layers of non-traditional data using satellite images,” she said.