Liaqat Baloch terms four years of Imran Govt a terrible chapter for people

LAHORE, Feb 18 (SABAH): Deputy Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, former parliamentary leader Liaqat Baloch has said that four years of Imran Khan government is a terrible chapter of economic misery, catastrophe, tsunami of inflation, burden of national debt, decline in living standards, constant increase in prices of food and essential items for the people.

He said that the incessant inflation bombings on the people by the PTI government that came to power as a result of the 2018 elections have plunged the poor, lower middle class and white-clads into the darkness of poverty and unemployment.

Liaqat Baloch said earlier, people were concerned about the educational needs of their children but now they are wandering for basic necessities like flour, sugar, ghee, petrol, electricity, gas. Promising prosperity to the people in the name of change, PTI has left the people miserable and weak.

He said that The recent rise in prices of petroleum products is also contrary to the ground realities. Oil prices are on a downward trend in the global market, while the government has unwittingly dropped petrol bombs on the people and forced them to go on hunger strike.

Poverty-stricken people are forced to kill or sell their innocent children, but the hearts of the apathetic rulers are hardened, he said adding that inflation bombs are being dropped every day following the IMF agenda/instructions. The cries of the people do not reach their ears nor their hearts. Instead of healing the wounds of the people, the “honourable ministers”, who are enjoying a lavish lifestyle and huge government concessions, are advising people to reduce their consumption of bread, sugar, pulses and petrol.

Liaqat Baloch said that on the one hand the government is crying for lack of resources and on the other hand the current governor of SBP Mr. Raza Baqir is being kept on 2.5 million monthly salary and more or less the same monthly other benefits. This duplicitous policy of Imran Khan is an open deception and fraud with the people.

Baloch said that if the currencies of other countries in the region are compared to the US dollar, then the value of Pakistani currency against the US dollar at present is much less than the other regional countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, etc. The Pakistani rupee is even weaker than Afghanistan, which has been facing external aggression and war ravages for the last three decades and is currently suffering from a severe financial crisis. At present, one US dollar equals about 91 Afghanis, while the exchange rate of one US dollar against the Pakistani currency is over 176 rupees.

Liaqat Baloch clarified that the exercise of burying the people alive by voting in the name of change and prosperity should be stopped now. The Imran Khan government, following in the footsteps of former military and civilian rulers, has continued to pursue the same anti-people policies. The slogan of change has become a tsunami of destruction for the people. The people will no longer be deceived by these deceptive rulers.

He said that the people are now looking to the Jamaat-e-Islami for real change. Inshallah, we will win the remaining stages of the local body elections and will surprise the so-called big parties in the next general elections as well. The people have no other option but Jamaat-e-Islami. Early elections are the only way out of the economic, political and security crisis. Imran Khan should admit his incompetence and resign immediately. Now the people’s court (vote) will decide the real rulers of the country.