PESHAWAR
Welcoming the government’s relief package worth Rs28bn for more than 14mln poor families, Chairman, Amun Taraqqi Party Muhammad Faiq Shah demanded the formulation of policy on permanent grounds. He asserted tough decisions shouldn’t be for the poor people.
Keeping in view the spiraling ‘price-hike’, Shah asked to devise a holistic mechanism to ensure availability of essential commodities on subsided or control rates and other facilities to people.
In wake of depressing economic conditions and turmoil, the ATP chairman called upon the rulers to adopt austerity policy and reduce their lavish expenses and expenditures, and give relief to people at optimal level.
Compromise on the country’s economy and integrity is intolerable, says Shah, while talking to different political and social activists here on Saturday.
Calling upon all institutions and political parties to make decisions unanimously, he emphasized frequent and consistent experiments should be halted now and work for the welfare of people collectively.
Giving an example of an all-weather friend of Pakistan, the People’s Republic of China, Faiq said the Government of China has put its country on a path of sustainable economic progress and ranked it in developed nations by adopting enhancing export, business and trade.
All democratic and dictatorial governments had taken tough and harsh decisions for people and freed themselves by holding responsibility for the mess to previous regimes, Mr Shah observed.
He added it is consistently happening in the country.
Faiq said former prime minister Imran Khan has shifted all responsibility on the shoulders of the present PML-N led coalition government while the present rulers are blaming the PTI for current economic turmoil.
He reminded PML-N and PPP also held responsibility to each other in the past.
Shah asked them to take responsibility themselves and to make legislation by framing national economic and foreign policy so the next regimes would initiate work in the light of proposed policies.
The ATP chairman expressed hope that alike policy would pull the country out from the prevailing economic crisis situations.
