ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said Economy Survey has endorsed the performance of his government
Speaking hours after the survey, he said the country was prospering on the economic front during the last two years and was heading in a positive direction. He said the Economic Survey report endorsed that Pakistan’s GDP growth rate was 5.74 percent during the third year of PTI’s government.
While strongly slamming the government, Imran Khan said that inflation is touching sky-high since the ‘imported government came into power.
“Now people will realise what inflation is,” he said. “I fear how will a normal household manage its budget. They used to say we are incompetent but the economic condition is now in front of you.”
He also slammed the section of media who were criticising his government for raising prices over their silence on the wave of inflation by the currrent government.
He said the PTI government was also asked by the IMF to increase fuel and electricity prices but they resisted as the decisions are not in favour of the people.
He said during the PTI’s government entire tenure, the price of petrol was increased by Rs55 per litre, but the ‘imported government’ has raised prices by Rs60 in just 15 days.
He regretted that Pakistan is unable to get foreign loans due to the incompetence of the government. He said Moody’s has downgraded Pakistani’s rating to negative and Pakistan will be unable to receive loans.
The former prime minister added that the current government was supposed to reduce inflation. He said FBR collected a record tax of Rs6,100, while the exports touched the $32 billion level.
He added that foreign remittances witnessed a record increase due to trust in the PTI government by Overseas Pakistanis. He said agriculture production witnessed a 4.4 percent increase as the government paid crop payments on time.
Imran claimed that WAPDA’s rating has been reduced and the authority is unable to get loans required for building dams. “Government’s rating itself has gone down, Moody’s has decreased Pakistan’s credit rating and we will receive loans on high interest,” he added.
The PTI chairman demanded inquiries into the deaths of Dr Rizwan and Malik Maqsood, who mysteriously died of heart attacks.
