RAWALPINDI
\nAwami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says there is a political vacuum [in the country]. The situation has gone out of politicians\u2019 control, and flour and tomatoes can also go past double century.
\nIn his message posted on social networking website X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, he wrote that after the triple century of dollar and petrol, [price of] sugar had also surged above double century. Flour and tomatoes can also make a double century. Now the survival of the people has been put at stake.
\nRashid said the PPP and the PML-N had started blaming each other and were \u201cwashing their dirty linen in public.\u201d \u201cPeople are not fool. They are aware of the current situation. They know that the prevailing situation is the result of incompetence and failure of the 16-month rule [of the PDM] due to which 240 million people are suffering,\u201d he added.
\nThe former federal minister said the Sharif brothers and Zardari had fled to London and Dubai after throwing the nation into abyss. The situation could be improved with a strategy. The IMF was not ready to give relief on electricity. First they hurled dollar, electricity and petrol bombs on the masses, then sugar and flour bombs, and now the edible oil, he continued.
\nRashid said the PDM government added all the taxes in the electricity bills. The total income is Rs4,000 billion, of which Rs2,000 billion have been paid as rent to power plants while Rs1,000 bilion is lost due to electricity theft.
\nSweet sugar has turned bitter for the poor, he lamented. The head of Awami Muslim League said politicians owned most of the sugar mills [in the country] and every cabinet comprised two or three mills owners. \u201cNo ordinary man is allowed to set up a sugar mill. The political uncertainty is increasing and the PML-N has been its main target.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RAWALPINDI Awami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says there is a political vacuum [in the country]. The situation has gone out of politicians\u2019 control, and flour and tomatoes can also go past double century. In his message posted on social networking website X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, he wrote […]<\/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-354012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n