Bilawal slams govt for inflation

by Tauqeer Abbas
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bi­lawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday slammed the federal government for rising inflation in the country, saying that the monthly inflation rate had gone through the roof at 11.1 percent.

In a statement, the PPP chairman pointed out that the annual in­flation rate had reached 14.1 percent. “Accord­ing to the WPI, the in­flation rate has reached 16.6 percent; while ac­cording to the SPI, the inflation rate in the country has reached 21.3 percent.”

Bilawal said that Imran Khan’s govern­ment had unleashed a maelstrom of inflation in the country, adding that there seemed to be no decrease in inflation. “How can a country sur­vive economically when it imports sugar and flour while producing wheat and sugarcane in abundance,” he ques­tioned. He said that dastarkhwans (charity food) for the poor in the holy month of Ramazan were quite telling of Imran Khan’s incompe­tence at best and indif­ference at worst.

“People have been squeezed dry trying to survive this unbear­able inflation under the selected government, whilst Imran Khans re­gime is adamant in not listening to anything but sycophantic praise for the puppet Prime Minister,” he added. Bil­awal said that the Sindh government was trying to heal the wounds of inequality of the poor by issuing Benazir Maz­door Card in these days of spiraling inflation.

“History will bear witness that when Im­ran Khan was wreaking havoc through increas­ing inflation, poverty and unemployment, the PPP was employing innovative ideas to pro­vide relief to common man through the lim­ited resources available to it,” he added.

The Nation

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