Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday said Prime Minister Imran Khan should “go home” if he cannot provide solutions to the problems faced by the people of the country.
Addressing the attendees at the stone laying ceremony of Malir Expressway in Karachi, Bilawal criticised the premier for his remarks of his administration being ‘in training’ for the first year of PTI’s government.
“This is a joke with the people of the country,” Bilawal said. “Where did the ’22-year struggle’, we so often heard about, went? What was he [Imran Khan] doing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for that last seven years?”
Bilawal remarks came two-days after PM Imran said inexperience was no more an excuse for the government or the ministers and that it was time to deliver.
The PPP chairman further asked the premier regarding the government's claims of eradicating corruption in 90 days. “He [Imran Khan] has only one answer to solve people’s issues,” Bilawal said. “He says ‘what can I do?”
“What should we tell the people who were committing suicides due to hunger? What should we tell the people who can’t even afford a meal let alone a roof over their head.” Bilawal asked. “We have the solution. You should resign and go home.”
Bilawal further said the potential of the country and its people could have been utilised properly had the prime minister been “even a little competent”.
“We are lacking behind in GDP when compared with Afghanistan and Bangladesh and are ahead of them in terms of inflation,” Bilawal said. “He [Imran Khan] does not have the competency to use the country’s resources".
The 39-km long Malir Expressway would be constructed on the left bank of Malir River will be a six-lane road. The major causeway would start from Korangi Road DHA and end at Kathore.
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz also expressed similar views in her address during a PDM rally in Marday a day before.
She said Imran Khan did not know how to run the government. “The people of Pakistan and Mardan have told you [the prime minister] that you might not be prepared to run a government but they are prepared to send you home,” she added.
Stepping up her tirade against the prime minister, she continued: “You said you were unaware of the circular debt, the electricity problem and the current account deficit… but you were fully prepared to cause a sugar and wheat crisis, as well as causing a Rs122 billion loss on LNG [liquefied natural gas].”
She had also criticised the frequent changes in the federal cabinet. The PML-N leader said that the members of the federal cabinet “appear to be playing musical chairs with themselves, switching one portfolio to the other, yet they are incapable of delivering” on the promises made to the people before the elections.
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