ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail made it clear that not in the business of fooling people, but “compelled” to tell the truth.
Miftah told in a short conversation late Friday night that didn’t really hear Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif when talked about people who “out to pull Dar’s leg.”
In his speech to the party’s general council on Friday, the PM said, without naming anyone, that people in the party who pulling his Dar’s legs shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the PML-N.
Miftah was the finance minister for the PML-N government twice, once in 2017 and again when the current government took over in April of last year.
Both times, he was a government minister but not a member of any house of parliament.
But in September of last year, Dar took over for Miftah as the minister of finance.
When asked about the prime minister’s comments about Ishaq Dar’s leg-pulling, he said he didn’t know anything about it.
“I don’t know why he said it or who he was pointing at.” Miftah kept.
But Miftah has said a lot of bad things about his replacement.
On June 9, he said that the budget for 2023–24, which just released, in line with what the IMF wants and is not very expansionary.
But he said that the budget could not kept up.
Also, referring to what Dar said on Thursday’s episode of Geo News’s “Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada,” Miftah said that geopolitics did not start in September of last year when it came to working with the IMF.
“It always takes place. First, the Ministry of Finance should decide whether or not we want to do the IMF programme.
