ISLAMABAD: PMLN President and National Assembly Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif has termed the latest increase in electricity tariffs, petrol prices and taxes as mini-budget and while rejecting the increase, has asked the government to reverse this cruel decision.
In a statement, Shehbaz said he had warned in his budget speech earlier this year that this government was trying to fool the nation and that it would burden the people with its minibudget. The PTI government proved that he was right, he said.
“The PTI presented a fraudulent budget and lied to the entire nation and the world. If this government is allowed to carry on any longer, it would bring the national economy to a total grinding halt. Millions more will be unemployed while millions would face abject poverty and starvation. Imposition of 17% sales tax on exempt items, increase in petrol, electricity prices is terrorism against the people and economy”, Shehbaz said.
The PMLN President said this government has dropped a new bomb on the people at a time when inflation and unemployment was at an all time high and the economy was facing a total collapse because of its corruption and incompetence. Imran Niazi is sacrificing the economy and the nation on the altar of IMF, he said. PTI blindly acted on the terms of the IMF and did not bother to care about public interest. Imran Niazi is working for the IMF, not for the people and Pakistan.
Shehbaz said, “Imran Niazi takes steps that increase inflation, then stages the drama of complaining that people do not understand the reasons for rising inflation. The nation knows very well of whois responsible for all this and who is perpetrating this oppression every day.
The problem is not the understanding of the nation but the corruption, lies and historic incompetence of the rulers, which the people are paying for.”
