Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has claimed that he has a list of 18 Pakistanis holding Rs4,000 billion (USD $15.52b) in their bank accounts, with the list including politicians and armed forces officers.
“Our country’s institutions are helpless to recover money from these people,” he said told a press conference in Islamabad on Monday, adding that judges, generals, bureaucrats, and politicians should give sacrifice for the betterment of the economy.
He claimed that the government were thinking about taxing the populace for Rs650 billion. “In the days to come, the government will likewise levy a tax on breathing,” he mocked.
Haq said that inflation had reached 34.3 per cent during the tenure of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government. “If the flour is being sold at Rs160 per kg, how can a head of a family feed 12 members?” he asked.
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The JI chief said PDM used to take out rallies against the PTI government regarding inflation, but like PTI, the PDM government had also failed miserably.
