Dr Malik Baloch slams ‘inept’ PTI government

NP president says current rulers have nearly bankrupted the country

QUETTA: Former Balochistan chief minister and National Party President Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has expressed concern that the country is passing through difficult times and that national issues are being decided outside parliament.

“In the name of democracy, Pakistan has been ruled under the worst dictatorships with political opponents being incarcerated through false accountability and electronic and print media being silenced for speaking the truth”, Dr Malik Baloch said in an address to party workers during a visit to the National Party Sindh Wahdat Secretariat on Monday.

Accompanied by former Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Yasmeen Lehri and National Party leaders including Central Vice President Makhdoom Ayoub and Mukhtiyar Chalgari, Dr Malik labelled the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government the most incompetent and unsuccessful in Pakistan’s history. He alleged that the federal government was concealing its failures through its favourite journalists in the national media.

“The masses have been forced to live under harsh circumstances with inflation, unemployment, corruption and lawlessness all reaching sky-high levels under the current government”, Dr Malik Baloch said, adding that, in a year and a half, the PTI administration had pushed the country to the brink of bankruptcy.

He also accused the federal government of attempting to distract the masses through false statements claiming that everything was okay. “All political parties and the people should together oust the inept current government”, Dr Baloch said.

He pledged that his National Party would continue to strive for democracy in the country and claimed that it had emerged as the most popular political party in Balochistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 3^rd, 2020.