Resolution Passed in the Joint meeting of Parliamentary Party National Assembly and Senate
The meeting strongly protested against the latest wave of inflation in the country which is beyond the tolerance of the people. The meeting pointed out that there is a massive difference between the prices during the tenure of PMLN Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and today’s prices. In the time of PML-N, a kg of sugar was Rs 55 which has crossed Rs 100 today, similarly the price of edible Ghee was Rs 140 to 170 per kg which today has reached Rs 255 to 270, the price of edible oil. It was Rs. 150 which today is Rs. 240 per liter. 20 kg flour was Rs. 620 which is being sold at Rs. 1400 today. One kg of Lentil was 65 rupees, Daal mash 180 rupees, Daal moong 75 rupees, Daal Masoor 65 rupees which is being sold today at 145, 280, 140 and 120 rupees per kg respectively. Beans have gone up from Rs 80 to Rs 155, red chillies from Rs 630 to Rs 1,000, turmeric from Rs 900 to Rs 1,400 per kg while rice sold at Rs 55 — Rs 85 has gone up to Rs 95 — Rs 140 per kg today. PMLN said this increase is a serious crime against the people of the present elected thieves and tyrannical government. They held the present incompetent, incompetent, vote thieves responsible for this chaos in the country.
The session declared that the imposed government had become a symbol of catastrophe which was committed to the agenda demolition of the national economy. They pointed out that business and employment had collapsed and now the process of destruction of institutions was underway. The PMLN said Pakistan was fast becoming a ‘failed state’ at home and abroad due the imposed corrupt mafia government. While at one end national assets were boing confiscated, on the one hand, Pakistan image was being defiled and the international arena. They highlighted that the country’s valuable assets ere being snatched away; PIA planes were being confiscated; Assets such as the Roosevelt Hotel were being taken over by foreigners; passengers were being treated like prisoners; and the effects of frustration and humiliation within the nation were intensifying. The PMLN said people were desperate to know why this is happening with an Islamic, democratic and nuclear Pakistan. They said the Responsibility for this national embarrassment lies on the incompetent, thieving and foreign-imposed government.
The meeting expressed grave concern over the economic condition of the country. The country’s growing debt of Rs 14,000 billion and termed the recent decision to borrow more a recipe for disastrous national suicide. National assets such as motorways, airports and F-Nine Park were being mortgaged to get more loans, they pointed out. The leaders believed that the most important question was how this debt will be repaid. They feared that national assets were being handed over to lenders for pennies and they will earn trillions of rupees by selling them on commercial basis for non-payment of loans. PMLN slammed this practiced and dubbed it squandering of national assets. Rejecting all these measures, the meeting demanded that the process of mortgaging national assets in a foolish and ignorant manner be stopped immediately. They held the view that this destruction of Pakistan’s assets in the name of privatization was tantamount to playing with fire, jeopardizing national security and sovereignty. PMLN saw all this as a disastrous deal that will have even more devastating consequences. They mentioned that the closure of PIA flights by Europe, the United States, Malaysia and China, and now by the United Nations, the seizure of its assets and the suspension of flight operations werea fruit of PTI government’s extremely irresponsible and false statements making the pilots’ degrees controversial.
The meeting expressed grave concern over reports of non-recognition of Pakistan’s ‘Sovereign Guarantee’, calling it a sign of economic bankruptcy. They saw this as evidence of global distrust of the current selected and unrepresentative illegitimate government, which is by no means a good omen for a nuclear Pakistan but in fact a serious threat. PMLN believed if an emergency strategy was not formulated on this dire situation, it could have very serious consequences as the enemies of Pakistan can take full advantage of this opportunity.
The meeting expressed grave concern over the gas shortage in the country and the growing crisis, saying that the elected government defused to listen despite repeated pursuation from the opposition, especially the PML-N. They observed that the situation was further worsened by criminal delays in LNG import and reckless actions of the government in the gas sector. The confrontation with the provinces on this issue was another aspect, which, instead of trying to resolve it in a timely and constitutional framework, had been compromised by the federation and the people of Pakistan and the industrial sector were being punished for their willful ignorance. The slammed the announcement to cut off gas supplies to industrial sectors. Terming it tantamount to stabbing the economy, PMLN demanded a reversal of this announced measure.
The meeting called for an investigation into the nationwide power outage. They maintained that like flour, sugar, medicine, gas, LNG and other scandals, efforts were being made to suppress this issue which was reprehensible and shameful.
PMLN leadership said the country’s backbone, the agricultural sector, was currently in severe crisis. The crisis of wheat and flour in the wheat season and the crisis of sugar in the crushing season of sugar and the exorbitant price were a telling proof of the most serious failures and corruption in the agricultural sector by the present government, they added. PMLN said matters had turned so grave that an agricultural country like Pakistan was importing wheat and sugar. On top of all this further increase in fertilizer prices is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, they said.
PMLN pointed out that the appointments of retired and in-service military officers in the institutions within Pakistan are practically painting a picture of martial law in the country due to which the civil bureaucracy in the institutions, and the people at large were suffering from severe uneasiness and anxiety. Many questions are being raised. This situation is also seriously making the reputation of the military questionable and will lead to further widening of the gap between the civilians and the military.
The meeting also expresses concern and alarm that Pakistan has relegated its case on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute to the cold storage, which is a manifestation of the historic failure of the imposed catastrophic PTI government to defend and implement national foreign policy. It observed that under the PTI rule, the Pakistani government seems helpless in response to India’s illegal, unilateral actions in blatant violation of UN Security Council resolutions, blatant violation of international law, the Geneva Conventions and bilateral agreements. This emboldens Pakistan’s enemies and is a source of frustration to the nation. PMLN said all this amounts to conceding defeat in a matter of national interest.
The meeting announced full support for PMLN Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s narrative and the principled historical position taken by him. They said Nawaz did not only point out the correct reasons for the serious dangers facing the nation but also proved that he was a true patriot by presenting these hard and inconvenient truths to the people. They said Nawaz’s narrative of ‘restoration of sanctity of vote’ had become the voice of the entire nation. In the light of its leader’s vision, narative and insight, the party considers the proposed course of action to address these issues to be the right path. The PMLN leaders said they were ready to sacrifice their body, mind and money and reiterate our commitment to obey every command of party Quaid Nawaz Sharif.
The session also endorsed the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) strategy to take the nation and the country out of its current predicament. It appreciated the efforts made so far and the commitment of its leadership. The meeting acknowledged that the PDM’s historic struggle for supremacy of the constitution, law and parliament has turned into a national movement to thwart which the vote-stealing government is busy using its power and government machinery ruthlessly against the PDM.
The meeting slammed the unjustified arrest and detention of party presidents Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz, Khawaja Asif and Khurshid Shah and the reprehensible treatment of the prisoners. It saw these acts by the government as proof of the success of the movement and government’s confusion and the success of the narrative of ‘respect the vote’. They reminded that the NAB-Niazi nexus is an open secret, the high courts had testified that this body was used for political engineering and revenge. They stressed that the fact that not a single pennyof corruption of the national exchequer was proven so far, testifies that the arrests of opposition leaders, their trials were based on nothing but political bigotry and political victimization. The meeting paid tribute to the opposition leaders for their bravery, courage and steadfastness in fighting the political persecution of the tyrannical and despotic government. They urged the judiciary to judge the politically motivate cases purely on merit in accordance with the requirements of the constitution, law and justice.
The meeting also strongly condemned the demolition of property of party leaders Saif Khokhar and Afzal Kharkhar, calling it another sign of the imposing government’s defeatist acts. Earlier, former National Assembly member Mudassar Qayyum Nahra and his family had also been subjected to such police brutality. They commended the ideological, loyal and steadfast leaders and workers who support Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif and termed them the precious assets of the party. The meeting paid tribute saying PMLN salutes its great comrades and reiterated the determination that this oppression will make PMLN stronger,
The moot saw the Foreign funding case as concrete evidence of the current government taking money from Pakistan’s enemies. They said It is also an ‘open and closed case’ of money laundering. They pointed out that the Election Commission has been obstructing the disclosure of the facts of this case for six years, which is regrettable, worrying and reprehensible. The meeting appreciated the decision of the PDM to protest before the Election Commission and demanded that the Election Commission takes immediate action on the memorandum submitted by the PDM. It demanded that all the documents related to this case, including 23 secret bank accounts, be made public. They also demanded that the the details obtained through SBP should be made public too so that the nation knows which country and which person has provided huge amount of money to Imran Khan. PMLN demanded that all proceedings in this case should be done in full public view. What is the justification for keeping the case and its record secret after the selected Prime Minister had said so?, they questioned.
The meeting demanded that cases of theft of foreign funding, 23 secret accounts, Malam Jabba, helicopter case, BRT, Billion Tree Tsunami, flour, sugar be heard on a daily basis and decisions be given on all these cases.
The meeting also strongly condemned the NAB crackdown on PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his associates and said that the selected Prime Minister was trying to intimidate the PDM chief and opposition leaders through NAB. The fact that no action has been taken against Asim Saleem Bajwa, the head of the CPEC Authority, despite the most serious allegations and irrefutable evidence, is a clear indication of unilateral political revenge, they lambasted. They demanded that immediate action should be taken on this matter.
The meeting strongly condemned the CPEC Authority Bill and its immunity. They stressed that a person facing controversy and allegations of corruption should not be the head of a sensitive project like CPEC as it was against national interest. The congregation noted that Asim Saleem Bajwa’s resignation from one post is an acknowledgment of the facts against him. Therefore, they said, while fulfilling the requirements of law and justice, he should be immediately investigated and removed from the post of Chairman CPEC till the completion of this investigation. The meeting believed that that nobody was above the law and accountability even if they were head of an institution.
The meeting strongly condemned the practice of gagging and strangling the media in the country, snatching its constitutional freedom and making it a tool of the government’s agenda. They pointed out that false and baseless cases were registered against the media to extort them into subjugation. The PMLN Leadership said this practice of silencing every voice to suppress the truth is signature of a dictatorship which had always been rejected by the nation. PMLN said the media was with them in their struggle against this dictatorial and fascist government.
The meeting strongly condemned the decision to reduce the number of seats in medical colleges in Punjab and said that the Imran Khan government had failed miserably in this regard as well. This reduction has been made by the government which claimed that it will spend on education and give educational opportunities to the young generation, it reminded. The meeting demanded that the measure be reversed immediately.
The PMLN Leaders expressed sorrow and grief over the demise of Senator Kulsoom Parveen, mother of Saad Wasim and cousin of Rana Mubashir. Prayers were offered for the forgiveness of the deceased and patience for the bereaved.
