‘PTI has set records in terms of failures’

Sindh government spokesperson says federal govt refusing to quote vaccine prices

KARACHI:

Sindh Government Spokesperson Barrister Murtaza Wahab has said PTI is not only a selected government, but a failed and useless one. He said the party has set records with the number of failures.

"It has taken a loan of $11.9 billion which is being spent on extravagance. In eleven months, poor people have not been given a single rupee of relief. Ask them (PTI) a question about this fact and they will start to beat about the bush."

Wahab expressed these views while talking to the media. He further said the people should ask them where the loan taken in the last 11 months has gone. "Has any university or hospital built or any project initiated to eradicate hunger, poverty, and inflation?" he asked.

The spokesperson said if the government is questioned, they start getting hot under the collar and take U-turns. "They want to borrow $26.3 billion more for the next year. Then they say that they are establishing a state of Madina. Their plan is poor eradication instead of poverty alleviation."

Murtaza Wahab further said that the party wants to import wheat and their target is not the people, but their ATMs. He continued that the current account deficit in a month is $632 million. "When the world was closed due to Corona, they boasted of lowering the current account deficit. Was it also due to the former government or people or the elite?"

He said the people who came to power into power to bring change have wreaked havoc on the entire nation. "That is why they are called Pakistan Tehreek-e-Interior. Whenever the captain brags about fixing everything, he should be shown the papers of the Economic Affairs Division."

"You claim to have 22 years of experience. Where are those experts? Whenever a company talks to them, there is another finance minister for the second round of talks," said. Wahab further stated that whenever they see that PPP is rising further up, the PTI bring something fake to malign it.

Once an Uzair Baloch's JIT was formed, but there is nothing to implicate the Pakistan Peoples Party, the spokesperson continued. "There is no name of anyone, including Faryal Talpur, in it. They say it was a statement under Section 164, but the question is where it was taken?"

He continued that Faryal Talpur had been a dynamic member of the assembly. but PTI are spreading rumors against her. He added Bilawal Bhutto is in Kashmir and his father is holding meetings in Lahore. T"his is the job of politicians who are leading us."

Responding to a question, he said Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had told the prime minister that the Sindh government wanted to buy the corona vaccine and even asked for the purchase price. He claimed Dr Faisal Sultan said that federal government was unable to provide the purchase price of the vaccine.

"The Sindh Government has even offered that the federal government can buy the vaccine for us and we will pay for it, but they are procrastinating."

To another question, Murtaza Wahab said that in the past, when anti-corruption had conducted an inquiry against Haleem Adil Sheikh, the latter stated he would not appear in any inquiry of the Sindh Government.

"Now NAB is saying that the ownership of his land is illegal and doubtful," he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 27^th, 2021.