JUI-F slams budget as economic strangulation

The JUI-F on Wednesday criticised the recently announced federal budget, calling it a conspiracy to strangle the public economically under the dictates of the IMF.

In a statement, JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri described the budget as nothing but a web of numbers, aimed at eliminating the poor while preserving the government's own interests. "This budget is a plan to eradicate the poor and protect the ruling elite," he said.

Ghauri also lamented that Pakistani citizens have been left at the mercy of international financial institutions. "Every household and every business is paying the price of the government's incompetence," he asserted.