Shehbaz, Maryam want to flee country, says Fawad

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Hussain on Wednesday said that PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and vice president Maryam Nawaz had orchestrated the drama of no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan for fleeing from country.

“The purpose of no-trust move by Shehbaz and Maryam is nothing but only to get a chance for going abroad, but we will not let them succeed in such attempts until they return the looted public money,” the information minister said.

Fawad made these remarks while addressing a condolence reference in memory of senior journalist Rahimullah Yousafzai and Editor-in-Chief of Daily Frontier Star Professor Dr Hafiz Sanaullah here at the Peshawar Press Club.

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He said ironically, the opposition parties were “comprised political dwarfs”, who did not carry out research on major socio-economic issues and eventually became a source of “fake news”.

The information minister said that the PPP and the PML-N, while in power for 10 years, during their respective tenures, had taken loans of Rs23 trillion. The country in fact was plagued with a “decade of darkness”, he added.

“Some Rs6 trillion loans were taken from 1947 to 2006 and spent on the construction of Islamabad, purchase of Gwadar, equipping the armed forces, and developing roads infrastructure.”

He said the present government had to borrow money for repaying the loans of $18 billion, taken by the past governments, in the next two years.

Appreciating the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for reposing confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Fawad said the political journey of “change” had started from the province in 2013, which helped to abolish the two-party system in the country.

It was unprecedented that the PTI was again given a two-third majority in the 2018 general elections, he added.

Fawad maintained that the government was striving to transform Pakistan into a true Islamic social welfare state on the pattern of Riyast-e-Madina for the socio-economic emancipation of the downtrodden and under-privileged.

It was PM Imran who had made serious efforts to put the country in the right direction, he added.
“Revolutionary Sehat Sahulat Card programme has been launched in Khyber-Pakthunkhwa, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir to provide every person free treatment of up to rupees one million in the country’s top hospitals.”

To ebb away inflation and price hike, he said, the PM’s Ration Subsidy Programme was launched under which 30% subsidy on essential commodities was being given to the poor segments of the society.

“Such projects have laid a strong foundation for the establishment of a true Islamic social welfare state in the country.”