ISLAMABAD: Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Thursday lashed out at the opposition and said that the group of the ‘looters’ have joined hands together to blackmail the ruling party of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI).

Addressing a convention at a private marriage hall in Narowal, the education minister said that the opposition has been using tactics of ‘vote of no confidence’ and ‘Long March’ only to blackmail the government. Shafqat said that the PTI-led will complete its five-year constitutional term.

He allegedly said that the opposition parties looted Pakistan for the last 30 years. He added that the PTI-led government is the ambassador of progress as it is working to make Pakistan a better country for every Pakistani out there. Shafqat alleged that PML-N failed to build a single hospital for the public and for its own leaders.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan, on the other hand, has developed cancer hospitals of high standard,” the Education Minister added. The minister said that the Sharif family is always in a rush to travel to the foreign countries for their medical treatment. Shafqat said that the PTI-led government will make Pakistan a ‘welfare state’. Shafqat said that the people of the country still stood by the side of the PTI-led government.