Accuses Imran Khan of committing \u2018economic terrorism\u2019
\n ISLAMABAD
\nMinister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that the parliament will complete its tenure and next general elections will be held on time.
\nIn 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.
\nMarriyum said that price hike has reached 16 percent due to incompetence of the previous government. She reiterated the incumbent government\u2019s resolve to address economic challenges of the country.
\nSeparately, talking to the media persons, Marriyum Aurangzeb said that \u2018economic terrorism\u2019 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.
\nImran had attacked the Constitution as he tried to scuttle the constitutional move to remove him from the prime minister\u2019s 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 \u2018economic terrorism\u2019 during his four years of rule.
\nHe 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.
\nRidiculing 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.
\nShe 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 \u2018economic terrorism\u2019. 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.
\nThe minister said Toshakhana is the country\u2019s 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.
\nImran Khan was in fact the campaign manager of Modi\u2019s reelection, she added. Taking a dig at the PTI leadership, she said they claimed to have won another World Cup after Imran\u2019s visit to the United States.
\nBlasting the former PM, she said Imran Khan had converted the Prime Minister\u2019s chair into a \u2018merchant\u2019s shop\u2019. It seemed that he had bought the Toshakhana gifts with the money borrowed from other people.
\nThe 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. \u201cMaryam Nawaz was targeted as a retaliation,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Accuses Imran Khan of committing \u2018economic terrorism\u2019 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n