LAHORE: The opposition has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to stop blaming previous governments for his failures and concentrate on his performance.
In an interview with foreign media, the Prime Minister lashed out at the Bhuttos and the Sharifs, blaming them for destroying the country and having a hand in the problems the country is facing today.
وزیراعظم اپنی 3 سال کی تباہ کاریوں کا الزام بھٹو اور شریف خاندان پر لگا رہے ہیں۔ اپنی نااہلی کا الزام دوسروں پر ڈالنے کا بیانیہ اب بری طرح سے پٹ چکا ہے۔ آپ نے ملک کے مجموئی قرضوں میں 70 فیصد اضافہ کیا ہے۔3 سال میں 20.7 ٹرلین روپے کے قرضے لیکر آپ دوسروں پر الزام ڈال رہے۔ 1/3
— SenatorSherryRehman (@sherryrehman) December 18, 2021
“Pakistan was rich in resources but the Bhutto and Sharif families used them unfairly,” the premier said, adding that his government wanted Pakistan to become a prosperous country and was fighting against the two super-rich families.
Reacting to the statement, PPP Senator Sherry Rehman said: “Passing the buck to the Bhuttos and the Sharifs for his failures in more than three years in government, Imran Khan should know that this narrative has been outdated.”
Taking to Twitter, the PPP Senator said that the PTI-led federal government had added to the country’s debts to the tune of 70 per cent amounting to Rs20.7 trillion and in the face of it he (Khan) is blaming others.
“In a weekly report, inflation shot up to 19.5pc. Is the PTI government not responsible for record loans, unbridled inflation and price hike, unemployment and crises in over three years? When will the incumbent government accept its responsibilities and the PTI knows that it is in power,” she asked.
The PPP Senator further said the premier had been under an illusion that except him all those in politics wanted to do corruption. “Contrary to this, the majority of Pakistan believes that corruption has increased in the regime of Imran Khan,” she added.
Meanwhile, PML-N’s information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb also asked Imran Khan to stop trumpeting the same false accusations because his repetition would not make these cooked-up charges true.
“Transparency International has already awarded the international certificate of corruption to this government and declared this Imran-led government a thief. Pakistan has dropped from 111th to 124th place because of the rampant corruption by Imran and his cronies,” she said in a statement.
She further said Khan had enslaved the nation to the ‘corrupt mafia cartels’, adding the premier helped these ‘mafias’ rob billions in sugar, flour and medicine scandals and then blamed others for it.
Aurangzeb also said Khan had been levelling these false allegations for the past 22 years and had been in government for over three years and yet he could not prove any of these accusations. “Had he spent this time and resources to solve the national issues, he might have gotten something done,” she lamented.
