KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down for unleashing skyrocketing inflation and ineffective policies for the economy in the country.
Prime Minister Imran Khan should take responsibility for not controlling inflation, resign and go home, said the PPP chairman in a statement issued on Sunday.
Bilawal Bhutto further said, “The selected prime minister has no idea of the plight of people who are having trouble paying their children’s school fees and house rent and feeding their families.”
There had not been a single day since Imran Khan had become the PM when it had been easy for a poor family to buy food due to high prices.
“PM Imran’s fake crusade against corruption has enticed the nation into long queues for sugar,” the PPP leader said, adding: “The rulers across the globe base policies on what they think is in the most excellent interest of their people while Khan’s strategies seem focused on ways to enrich his associates.”
The PPP leader further said that false claims of economic progress are rubbing salt into the nation’s wounds. He said that the per capita income in Sindh is more than the entire country. He said the poverty rate in the PPP-led province decreased by 7.6 percent while it has touched 27 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) government.
Bilawal Bhutto rejected the PTI claims of economic progress as well as the incumbent government’s plan to impose a ten percent tax on pensions in the upcoming budget. “The nation will not at all forgive PM Khan for crushing the deprived under encumber of taxes imposed on instructions of the IMF,” he added.
