RAWALPINDI
\nAwami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says the issue of general elections is getting complicated day by day as the controversy surrounding announcement of date lingers on.
\nIn his statement on the social media website X on Friday, he said the question who would announce the date, the Election Commission or the president, had yet to be decided. The former minister wrote that the ball was now in the court of law ministry.
\nRegarding the economic woes of the common man, Rashid said the dollar had completed triple century. [Rising prices of] food and petrol, electricity and flour, sugar have become a serious issue.
\nHe said Pakistan\u2019s economic problems had become grim. Despite aid from Saudi Arabia and China, depreciation of rupee against the dollar continues. \u201cIn the next five years, we need $88 billion. Now no one is ready to give us dollars. It is unclear what will happen.\u201d
\nThe former federal interior minister said Waqar Masood was his close friend. He would ask him to resolve the issue of petrol and electricity [price hike] and make flour affordable to the poor, otherwise the problem would become serious and complicated. \u201cThen no one will be able to handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RAWALPINDI Awami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says the issue of general elections is getting complicated day by day as the controversy surrounding announcement of date lingers on. In his statement on the social media website X on Friday, he said the question who would announce the date, the […]<\/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-351685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n