PIA is being sold at lowest prices, so-called experts destroyed national institutions with a well-thought-out plan: Liaqat Baloch

LAHORE, Nov 01 (SABAH): Naib Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Liaqat Baloch has said that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is being sold at the lowest prices. He said if engineers, experts and skilled persons are relied on, the Railways, Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and Steel Mills can be revived and profitable even today.

Liaqat Baloch while talking to the media representatives at workers convention, oath-taking ceremony of district emirs in Vehari, Khanewal and Lahore said that the so-called experts of the government, bureaucracy and external forces destroyed the national institutions with a well-thought-out plan. About PIA, he said that it is being sold at lowest prices.

He said the role of the army and the bureaucracy on the administrative, economic and development fronts of the state must be redefined, otherwise the situation will deteriorate further and one by one all the institutions and administration will lose their writ and go on the path of destruction.

Liaqat Baloch said that Pakistan’s economic relations with China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar should be stabilized, we welcome it, but the coalition government should also tell the nation that what is being gained by merely establishing personal interests based relations with international institutions and global leadership while the nation is getting nothing.

He further said that all this effort will be useful for the country and the nation when there will be an end to the political crises for political stability in the country, an end to the corruption of the administrative system and the empowered classes otherwise corruption, mismanagement, vested interests, the style of governance will cause further damage and degradation.

Liaqat Baloch condemned the government’s decision to raise prices of petrol and diesel instead of making them cheaper and said that expensive electricity, petrol and gas jams the economic wheel. In such a situation, while the cost of production of domestic goods becomes unaffordable, it will be futile to beg from the world and expect foreign investment, he added.