MULTAN: Tehrik-i-Istaqlal, Pakistan, Tehrik-i-Insaf and Jamaat-e-Islami have criticised what they called the apathy of the PPP leadership towards the plight of the poor since the party leadership is wasting public money by staying and holding party meetings in luxurious Dubai hotels while the nation is facing hunger, poverty and price hike.
Tehrik-i-Istaql, chief Rehmat Khan Wardag asked the PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari to justify spending huge public money on staying and holding meetings in Dubai. He questioned that if the Pakistan People’s Party was a ruling party of Pakistan or Dubai, and if the government had been increasing prices of petrol, power and gas to bear expenses of such luxuries. He expressed sorrow that the PPP regime had forced the masses to swallow ‘bitter pills’ but letting its own leadership and other affluent people off scot-free by writing off their loans worth billions of rupees.
Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Rao Zafar Iqbal and Kanwar Muhammad Siddique said the PPP leaders’ luxurious lifestyle gave the impression that they were not the rulers of a country which economy had been on the verge of collapse due to foreign and internal loans, massive corruption and bad governance.
“Those who plundered billions of rupees of the poor in previous decades have now got themselves a clean chit through the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO),” he said, adding that the masses were deceived in the recent elections as the politicians sought their votes in the name of ‘Roti, Kapra Aur Makan’ but they were actually forced to starve as the government withdrew all subsidies on the pressure of the IMF and the World Bank. He demanded immediate halt to the rising prices of essential commodities, petrol and power to provide relief to the masses. Tehrik-i-Insaf leader Muhammad Younas Ghazi, Maj (Retd) Mujib Ahmed Khan, Dr. Farooq Langah have also criticised the holding of PPP government in Dubai or London and spending national exchequer ruthlessly.
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