RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Sunday that only Sharif family is happy with the economic policies of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, he wrote that economic experts have rated Dar as the most incompetent finance minister of the country. The Sharifs have appointed him; the family has distributed all offices within the family, he added. He said that Dar has ruined the economy.
PM Shehbaz defended Dar and said whoever tried to pull him down, he would punish him, he said.
Rashid wrote on the social media website that whether a technocrat or a democrat [government], there is no option [to stabilise economy] but the IMF. It would be clear whether the country would default or survive by June 30. If the economy sank, the country would sink.
“There is a disparity between the speeches of the prime minister and the finance minister on the budget. Political instability will bring destruction and ruin,” he added.
The former federal minister said that there is a ditch ahead and a pit behind for the incoming government. Plan B is unknown. It is not an easy task to predict how the political crisis is shaping up.
Bilawal said that they [the PPP] would win next elections the same way they won [election of mayor] in Karachi. He remembered the aid [promised to Sindh] a year after devastating floods, Rashid continued.
The ex-minister said that five members pass a bill in the assembly, and it is imposed on 240 million people [of Pakistan]. The constitutional, political, economic and financial crisis in the country has become severe, and the poor are the worst sufferers. No one is there to alleviate their sufferings.
Rashid said that people have become conscious. They will not vote in the name of development. If the poor get the right to vote, they would spring a big surprise on everyone. The rulers are living in a fool’s paradise, they are ignorant of the ground realities; all their decisions are turning against them, Rashid concluded.
