PESHAWAR
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) former president Muhammad Humayun Khan has said its party would secure majority seats in the second phase of local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
In a statement, Humayun Khan said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) should take pragmatic steps for controlling high inflation, adding that people would reject the ruling party in upcoming general elections as they rejected it in recently held local body polls.
The PPP leader said that privatization of government departments has been planned by the incumbent government but it would increase unemployment instead of creating more jobs.
He called upon the PTI leadership to abolish unwise economic policies and do something better for poverty stricken people of the country.
Mr Humayun’s government should reduce its lavish expenditures, adding that PPP had rejected the proposed mini-budget as it had been prepared to appease the IMF.
The PTI government has kept all terms and conditions of the IMF deal secret and is on the way to present a mini-budget in line with its disastrous agreement with the IMF, he added.
The failed policies of PTI will put more pressure on the people as the country was in dire need of a plan for economic recovery, he added.
Former Finance Minister Muhammad Humayun Khan said that no relief has been given to the working poor in the mini-budget.
