PTI responsible for ‘economic instability’

Federal Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Sunday said that during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, Pakistan was deliberately pushed towards economic instability, and work on the game-changer project, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), was stopped by it.

Talking to the media here at his residence, he said had the work on CPEC projects, launched by Nawaz Sharif, continued at the usual pace, the country would have been included in the list of developing countries today.

Asif regretted that former premier Nawaz and his family were subjected to maltreatment and cruelty, and the characters involved in the process were getting exposed one by one now.

He said, “[PTI Chairman] Imran Khan and his facilitators had together committed injustice with Nawaz Sharif.”

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During the PTI government, he said, Nawaz and his family were maltreated and suppressed continuously for four years and false cases were registered against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders.

He said the PTI victimised the PML-N leadership politically also.

Asif said that the nexus of Imran and former chief justice Saqib Nisar had launched a cruel campaign against Nawaz. He said the country was pushed into political and economic instability under a well-thought-out plan.

The federal minister said Saqib Nisar's son was selling the PTI tickets for Rs12 million each, which everyone saw and heard on television and social media sites.