‘Pakistan handed over to IMF to hide incompetence’

PML-N spokesperson says Imran Khan has compromised sovereignty

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Sunday that that Pakistan’s sovereignty had been compromised as Prime Minister Imran Khan had “handed over the country to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a platter”.

“This time the East India Company didn’t even need to fight,” she said referring to the appointment of IMF official Dr Reza Baqir to the post of the State Bank of Pakistan governor.

“Instead of coming up with a favourable and sustainable economic plan, he [Prime Minister Imran Khan] has passed on the control of the country’s fiscal and monetary policies to the IMF by appointing its employee as the head of the central bank,” she maintained.

The former information minister said that it was no secret that Baqir excelled at the art of keeping countries buried under debt for the IMF.

“He [PM Imran] used to rant about how competent his team is and how it would fix the country’s economy in the blink of an eye. Now he has embarrassed the nation by caving in to every IMF demand,” she added.



“Imran Khan doesn’t need to go to the IMF anymore because he has formally made the country’s top financial institution their office.”

The PML-N spokesperson said it now made sense as to why former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by hook or by crook.

“It’s is because he [Nawaz] wouldn’t have surrendered the country to a global lender.”

Aurangzeb said the country had not a seen a day without a new disaster ever since Imran and his regime had come to power.

“The people have already been bombarded with a Rs9 petrol price hike on the behest of the IMF.”