KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari has said that only prosperous farmers are the guarantee of an agriculturally stable Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari in a statement referring to the farmers’ march said that farmers are the backbone of the country’s economy and their property is a must for a stable Pakistan.
The former president said that it was very unfair for the farmers not to get the fruits of their labor while not getting proper and fair price of crops was economic exploitation of the farmers.
The PPP co-chairman said that an agriculturally strong Pakistan is the manifesto of the PPP and the government has failed to provide agricultural fertilizer to the farmers. The PPP will continue its tradition to uplift the farmers and will continue raising voice for them at every forum.
Meanwhile, speaking at a news conference on Thursday, PPP information secretary and MNA Shazia Marri said the farmers were facing serious problems like the unavailability of urea fertiliser and they had been protesting over the PTI government’s “anti-farmer policies”.
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She claimed that a bag of urea fertiliser was being sold for up to Rs3,500 in the black market and the federal government was not providing any relief to farmers.
She said the PPP would hold rallies against the anti-farmer policies of the federal government. She said the PPP had raised this issue in the National Assembly, but the government’s response was “very ridiculous”.
