KARACHI:Former Sindh governor and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mohammad Zubair on Friday criticized the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for ignoring its own election manifesto of creating new jobs, construction of houses, investment in the education sector and reducing miseries of the poor masses.
Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club here Zubair recalled that the ruling PTI’s top agenda was to create 10 million jobs and build 5 million houses in the country; however, these promises are yet to be fulfilled despite eight months of this regime have already passed.
The former governor said that the statistical data of State Bank of Pakistan indicates that more than 0.6 people are likely to become jobless while four million other people will go below the poverty line. “There’s no plan with the sitting government about how to build houses and create jobs as promised by their prime minister,” he observed.
The PML-N leader said the federal governments of the PTI has made lives of people miserable by increasing the prices of electricity, gas, petrol and daily use edibles.
He said people had expected a decrease in the prices of edible and non-edible items in the PTI’s government but now they are disappointed after being further burdened with price hike.
He said just after soon after making government, the PTI rulers contacted the IMF to seek even more foreign loans. He reminded that Imran Khan, while standing on a container, had boasted that he would commit suicide rather than going to the IMF for loans. He said that the country’s economy is facing serious threats as the present government has broken all records of getting loans. This government does not possess any ability. Their ministers do not have any wisdom and understanding sans levelling accusations, he criticized.
He further said when the PML-N had assumed the power in 2013 the country was facing worst electricity and gas load-shedding. However, he said, it was the PML-N government which steered the country clear of the energy crisis under the able leadership of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.