Accuses Imran Khan of committing ‘economic terrorism’
ISLAMABAD
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that the parliament will complete its tenure and next general elections will be held on time.
In a video statement on Friday, the information minister said that the people will elect their representatives through free and fair next elections. She said that former prime minister Imran Khan was removed from his office as per constitution.
Marriyum said that price hike has reached 16 percent due to incompetence of the previous government. She reiterated the incumbent government’s resolve to address economic challenges of the country.
Separately, talking to the media persons, Marriyum Aurangzeb said that ‘economic terrorism’ and autocratic steps like attack on the Parliament and the Constitution were hallmarks of the four-year misrule of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan.
Imran had attacked the Constitution as he tried to scuttle the constitutional move to remove him from the prime minister’s office through a vote of no-confidence, but ironically he was asking others for course correction, she said. Marriyum asked Imran to apologise to the nation for skyrocketing prices of staple food items and medicines by unleashing ‘economic terrorism’ during his four years of rule.
He had failed to fulfil his claim of providing 10 million jobs, and instead rendered some 6 million people jobless due to his bad governance, she added. She accused Imran of patronising cartels and mafias, which led to increase in the prices of wheat flour, sugar and medicines.
Ridiculing Imran for repeating a speech ad nauseam, she said his lies and arrogance have no end. Imran Khan was involved in money laundering through foreign funding of his party, she alleged, adding the case of PTI funding is being heard by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
She said the country is reeling under the burden of record debts taken by Imran-led government, and the masses are suffering the consequences of his ‘economic terrorism’. Imran had lost the confidence of people and was ousted from power through a democratic way of no-confidence move by the true public representatives, she added.
The minister said Toshakhana is the country’s Baitul Mal and Imran Khan, the so- called head of the State of Madina, robbed it. She said the PTI leadership made a hue and cry about self-respect and honour, but they made a compromise on the Kashmir issue as Indian PM Narendra Modi had illegally annexed the state during their tenure.
Imran Khan was in fact the campaign manager of Modi’s reelection, she added. Taking a dig at the PTI leadership, she said they claimed to have won another World Cup after Imran’s visit to the United States.
Blasting the former PM, she said Imran Khan had converted the Prime Minister’s chair into a ‘merchant’s shop’. It seemed that he had bought the Toshakhana gifts with the money borrowed from other people.
The minister said that Imran on Thursday night claimed that Farah Gujjar could not be held accountable as she held no public office, but he should remember that he had ordered to handcuff a daughter in front of her father, who was also not a public-office holder. “Maryam Nawaz was targeted as a retaliation,” she recalled.
