‘PTI’s incompetence has sunk economy’

PPP leaders lambast ruling party as it completes two years in power

KARACHI:

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has plunged the country into crisis over two years of its tenure, said Sindh government spokesperson Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Sunday, as the ruling PTI completed two years in government.

Lambasting the PTI, Wahab said that its "incompetent rulers" had sunk the country's economy in a short span of two years. He further stated that the "selected [PTI] government" had set a record of accruing external debt and had failed to introduce a single scheme focused on people's welfare thus far.

"The prices of food items have skyrocketed due to [PTI's] inefficient policies" and basic commodities such as flour, sugar, electricity and gas are now out of people's reach, he remarked.

Wahab went on to censure Prime Minister Imran Khan for "failing to fulfill any promises made during his election campaign" and appointing persons with dual nationalities as advisors.

"He has imposed foreigners on the nation and formed a kitchen cabinet comprising a gang of corrupts," the spokesperson said, further alleging the PM of "patronising mafias and giving them a free hand to rob people."

He claimed that the country was to further sink in the economic crisis if the incumbent government, "which uses accountability watchdogs only against the opposition, was allowed to continue to rule nation."

Separately, Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, too, criticised the PTI for its "incompetency."

"It is due to their incompetency that inflation has increased, the value of dollar has soared and prices of gold and petrol have surged," he commented, lambasting the PTI for "making changes in the Benazir Income Support Programme to further burden the poor."

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27^th, 2020.