JACOBABAD: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has announced to challenge the ordinance issued by the PTI government regarding State Bank of Pakistan in the court.
He said that after this ordinance, SBP will not be accountable to Parliament and the judiciary as it will only follow the dictates of the IMF.
Addressing a press conference at Jakhrani House in Jacobabad, the PPP Chairman said that the PTI government wanted to make economic decisions through ordinances and was handing over the country’s institutions to the IMF. “If the SBP followed the IMF policy, it would be an attack on the economic sovereignty of the country, so the PPP would challenge the ordinance in court,” he stated.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the economic crisis that the people of Pakistan are facing is due to the government of Imran Khan, which has plunged us into a tsunami of inflation. “In the last three years, the government has changed two Finance Ministers but no change has been made in the policy. The policy is the same to give relief to the rich and fleece the poor.
Rising gas, electricity and petrol prices make everything more expensive,” he pointed out. The PPP Chairman said that Maulana Fazl Rehman would not support just one party in the PDM. “I was told that past history of the PPP and the PML-N is such that it is difficult to keep two parties together, but despite this he has taken all the parties together in the last three years,” he added.
He said that we do not want the fight of the opposition to benefit the government in any way as we want to give tough time to the government from the platform of PDM. “All the opposition parties are on one page that Imran Khan and his government have to go,” he added.
Asked about a possible change in the Federal cabinet, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that a change in the cabinet was a good thing but Khan’s change was not understandable because Imran Khan was not ready to take any responsibility. Whenever there is a problem, they turn someone into a scapegoat. Latest example being Special Assistant Nadeem Babar, who was made a scapegoat after the petrol crisis.
The PPP Chairman said that we have been hearing about Swiss cases for a long time even though their opponents failed in three Swiss cases and former President Asif Ali Zardari was honorably acquitted.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that in the general elections of 2018, rigging had taken place all over the country and preferred candidates were elected instead of public representatives. “There was also historic rigging in Jacobabad against which PPP candidate Ijaz Jakhrani had approached every forum.”
He said that NAB and other agencies were being used against the PPP representatives in Jacobabad and efforts were being made to distance them from me. “Asif Zardari had stated that NAB and economy cannot go hand in hand and now after 3 years of the present government everyone is saying the same thing,” he further pointed out.
The PPP Chairman demanded from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that the attitude and formula that emerged after the by-polls in Daska and the manner in which rigging was not allowed should not only take place in the Punjab seats but also where-ever riggings were committed ECP should play an independent role there.