KARACHI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra said Sunday that Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had misled the nation about Pakistan’s impending default.
Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, he said the federal government had failed to stabilize the teetering economy and yet has the audacity to put all blames on the previous government. He maintained inflation is hitting the public hard and everyone is experiencing its shocks at all level as Pakistan is facing financial challenges one after another. The price of basic necessities like oil, sugar and flour continued to soar, he added.
The federal government had made many promises to the people to fix the economy but they all fell apart, he said. Jhagra also lambasted the federal government stating that those who criticized PTI’s government for bowing to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had themselves kowtowed to the international lender.
He reiterated that the federal government had destroyed the economy and it had exploited every province, adding despite being from Punjab, the Shehbaz Sharif-led government had deprived the province of funds for flood victims.