Lahore: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has again asked all political groups to agree on charters of economy and democracy that everyone can agree on. This will help the country get out of crises by getting everyone to agree on national issues.
On Saturday, the PM spoke at a ceremony in Lahore to celebrate Danish School graduates. He said that no problem can stop the country from moving forward. Only if we all sit down and put aside our differences.”
The PM went on to say that even though Pakistan has mineral resources worth trillions of dollars. Its economy has been dependent on bailout deals from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
PM Shehbaz said, “India hasn’t gone to the IMF since 1991. How many times have we gone?”
PM Shehbaz said that the government had to “beg” the IMF for a bailout plan because it was the only way to stop a default that was about to happen.
He also said that even though the country was able to avoid going into default, the IMF’s stand-by deal should be used as a break to get the economy back on track for long-term growth.
“Let’s make an economic plan. “Let’s work together on the charter of democracy,” the PM said, asking everyone to put their differences aside and work for the country’s good.
“A pathetic performance”
Earlier today, the prime minister asked the people to compare “pathetic and poor performance of corruption-tainted government of Pakistan Teheek-e-Insaf (PTI) with that of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which has always been the pioneer of mega development projects”.
He was speaking at an event where the foundation stones for several important development projects had been laid. One of these projects was a 19-kilometer-long Lahore bypass that costs Rs35 billion. Which connects Kala Shah Kaku to the Lahore-Karachi Motorway.
The PM said that they would accept the will of the people in the upcoming general elections. He also said that if the PML-N got another chance to serve the country, they would recover Pakistan’s real image.
“If the PML-N had been in power during the four years that the PTI ran the country, things would have turned out differently,” he said.
He also doubted what Imran Khan said about getting back “stolen wealth” stashed outside of Pakistan in 90 days. He said that the last government did not get a single penny in its four years in power.
Referring to the Rs50 billion amount recovery scandal, he said that the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) had looked into it and, after settling out of court with the other party, decided to return the money to the government. However, it did not go to the State Bank of Pakistan, but instead to the Supreme Court, “where Niazi’s government became a party.”
“It was a huge crime that the national treasury stolen,” he said. He added that the BRT Peshawar, Toshakhana. Malam Jabba, and sugar scams, among others, were some of PTI’s other major cases of corruption.
