Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan for the worst economy in the country’s history, shortly after a press conference by the cabinet members in which they highlighted the government’s achievements over the past two years.
Taking to Twitter, the PPP leader slammed the prime minister for Pakistan’s “democracy & human rights suffering”, stating that unemployment was at an all-time high. “2 years in power & @ImranKhanPTI has given us the worst economy in our country’s history, foreign policy failures from Kashmir to Saudi, democracy & human rights suffering, unemployment at an all-time high, transparency international has said corruption is higher than before,” he tweeted.
PML-N president and Opposition leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif said that the two years of the PTI government had been an ‘unmitigated disaster’ from foreign policy to economic affairs to the governance of the country. In a series of tweets, the PML-N president said Imran Khan’s ‘mismanagement of national affairs’ had increased the woes of the masses. “People continue to pay heavy price for this failed experiment in political engineering,” Shehbaz said. “In two years of PTI government: GDP growth rate registered a massive decline from +5.8% in 2018 to -0.45% in 2020, rendering millions of people jobless and pushing many more below the poverty line. Prices of sugar, wheat and medicines almost doubled. Per capita income went down steeply,” he noted.
The PML-N president said the incumbent government’s ‘failure in critical areas of foreign policy could not be starker’. “After 70 years, India had the audacity to annex Kashmir after IK hoped Modi would win elections. Work on CPEC was slowed down for a year. Relationship with key allies such as Saudi Arabia was subjected to controversy,” he added.
PPP Secretary Information Moula Bux Chandio and Secretary Information PPPP Dr Nafisa Shah held a press conference at Sindh House Islamabad on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Nafisa Shah said that right now ‘PTIMF’ is ruling the country, which has dropped bombs of price hike on the poor masses. “The disparity between the prices of sugar, petrol and wheat at the time of previous governments and that of PTI’s is obvious. The tsunami of price hike has broken our spine, and such laws are being introduced which will result in the shutting down of businesses,” she said.
Moula Bux Chandio said that Imran Khan used to talk of tsunami, but it has come true in the literal sense as a tsunami of issues is faced by the country right now. “The reason Imran Khan called the Taliban ‘Shaheed’ is because he is indebted to them. Imran Khan continuously disrespects reverend personalities in his speeches. He has also brought shame to all revolutionists in the world, by chanting ‘tabdeeli’,” he said.
“Chief justice, while sitting on his seat, had said that Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was wronged. Imran Khan’s dreams are coming true as the world is accepting Israel. People still remember the name ‘Bhutto’ while Imran Khan is tracing the footsteps of Dictators Zia ul Haq and Musharraf,” he further said. “PPP has always respected the judiciary, more than anyone else,” he added.
