Shehbaz Sharif, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, has slammed the PTI-led federal government for doing yet another ‘U-turn’ by introducing the mini-budget, calling Prime Minister Imran Khan’s administration “the most incompetent in the country’s history.”
“On the Rs350 billion mini-budget, the PTI made an usual U-turn. If the average person’s pockets are empty, this budget is phoney “On Tuesday, he declared this in a speech to the lower house of Parliament.
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“Last month witnessed the biggest trade deficit, while circular debt continued to rise exponentially,” the PML-N preisdent said, adding that, “Circular debt has increased to a record Rs27 billion, which was Rs11 billion during our party’s rule”.
“The price for electricity has also been increased thrice [in their tenure], which has spelled country’s destruction,” he maintained.
“Some people are happy at the economic progress that they say Pakistan is making under Imran Khan’s rule,” the former Punjab chief minister said. “But the fact is that this government has no control whatsoever over circular debt, dollar [rate], inflation, or the increasing unemployment in the country”, he added.
“So, the question is what exactly they are capable of bringing under control?” he asked and went on to call the government the “most incompetent, lethargic and ‘manhoos’ (wretched) in Pakistan’s history”.
Shehbaz pointed out that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s finance minister had promised that the PTI will stick to the IMF’s conditions (IMF).
“The fact is that the control of the country’s economy has been handed over to IMF,” he maintained.
Shehbaz Sharif, the head of the two main opposition parties, and Bilawal Bhutto, the chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), have repeatedly slammed the government for their “mini-budget.”
Shehbaz has described the budget as a “true hammer” that will be “dropped on the nation through mini-budgets.”
“The most vulnerable sections of the society have been hit the hardest with this disastrous mini-budget,” the PML-N president said in a statement.
