{"id":264922,"date":"2022-06-08T06:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=264922"},"modified":"2022-06-08T06:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:06:25","slug":"delay-in-early-elections-will-aggravate-economic-crisis-hammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/delay-in-early-elections-will-aggravate-economic-crisis-hammad\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay in early elections will aggravate economic crisis: Hammad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nFormer energy minister Hammad Azhar has said that political instability triggered by the vote of no-confidence that toppled the PTI-led government earlier this year was responsible for the prevailing economic crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cLeader Shehbaz Sharif of minority party became prime minister of the country -comedy show is going on- if this was a private company they would have been fired long ago,\u201d Hammad said while addressing a press conference in Lahore on Tuesday.<br \/>\nResponding to a question, the senior PTI leader denied the reports that they are holding backchannel talks with any stakeholder, saying that early general elections are the only solution to steer the country out of the crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the government wants the situation to improve then they should call snap polls, if (early) elections are not held on time, the situation will get worse, he added.<br \/>\nThe ex-minister also said that \u201cexperienced rulers\u201d have completely failed to control the situation as the rupee plummeted to an all-time low against the US dollar.<br \/>\n\u201cThese people are praying for rains so that power load-shedding will be reduced,\u201d he remarked.<br \/>\nHe was of the view that if his party was in power, the economic situation would not have been so bad today.<br \/>\n\u201cWe reduced the prices of electricity and fuel, we left the GDP growth at 6 per cent and will take it to between 7 and 8 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