The government side, while lashing out at the PPP and PML-N, on Saturday said the opposition was “weak and incompetent”, at loggerheads with each other and that the moot would not yield any outcome.
The announcement came at a joint news conference after senior leaders from both sides including PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and others met at a luncheon hosted by PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif at his residence in Lahore.
Addressing the media, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz said the opposition leaders lacked coordination and were not “sincere” with each other.
“We are lucky as we have got an incompetent opposition that has no proper coordination and direction. These people (Zardari and Shehbaz) are not sincere even with each other,” he said. “This meeting will not yield any result.”
Responding to a question, the minister maintained that during their respective tenures, both the PPP and PML-N had “jeopardised” the economy and brought the country on the verge of “bankruptcy”.
“Today they (Zardari and Shehbaz) have become [economic] experts. They should be ashamed to talk about inflation,” he said.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan is taking effective and viable measures to control inflation. We will overcome it soon.”
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib stressed that PM Imran would never give NRO to the “looters of nation’s wealth”.
Addressing the media in Lahore, he said during the last three and half years PML-N had been “blackmailing” the government on various issues like the Financial Action Task Force and budget.
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“Opposition always gave priority to personal interests over national interests and used various tactics to abolish NAB,” he said.
“PPP and PML-N today's meeting was meaningless as the government and people are least bothered about such matters,” he added.
“These meetings are actually exposing the priorities of the opposition as they do not believe in the betterment of people.”
He noted said that a group of plunderers would go to jail, adding that money of Asif Zardari and Sharif family was “hidden abroad”.
“These looters are in a habit of looting the public money and later blaming that they were politically victimised.”
Commenting on the opposition parties’ meeting, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said that the future of PML-N's politics would be the same as that of “Nasla tower”.
Addressing a rally at Lal Haveli in connection with the Kashmir Solidarity Day, Rashid said that the politics of “corrupt opposition parties including PML-N and PPP would be buried soon”.
He alleged that the previous ruling parties had looted the country and had been responsible for the prevailing inflation in the country.
He said Pakistan's development was linked to stability in Afghanistan, adding that Taliban gained independence after 40 years of war and that Islamabad had friendly relations with Kabul.
The minister reiterated that the nation was united on the Kashmir issue and would not abandon their brethren in the IIOJK.
(With input from APP)
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