BUNER: The PTI’s Chairman Imran Khan said on Friday that the ‘imported government’ dropped a price-hike bomb on the people only in two months.
Addressing a public rally in the Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), he said that India and Israel wanted to see the disintegration of Pakistan while lamenting that the US also does not want to see a stable Pakistan.
He said that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) built up the rhetoric of ‘inflation’ against the PTI government while he compared the prices of daily use commodities such as cooking oil, flour, vegetables, etc during the tenure of the PTI government and the ‘imported government’ in two months only.
He also compared the fuel and electricity prices between the two tenures. PTI chairman said they were also pressurized by the IMF to raise prices but they did not succumb to it unlike the incumbent government whose leaders are living abroad and they have no stake in the country.
Speaking on what was the cost of toppling his government through a US-backed conspiracy, he said Pakistan’s GDP growth peaked at nearly 6% while industrialization witnessed acceleration after Ayub Khan’s era.
Imran Khan said the foreign reserves have depleted sharply only during the two months of the ‘imported government’ while the stock market has crashed by nearly 10% meaning that Rs700 billion have been withdrawn from the market.
He said the international credit rating agency Moody’s also degraded Pakistan’s rating to negative.
Imran Khan said that through his finance minister Shaukat Tarin, he had conveyed to the ‘neutrals’ that the ouster of his government through a conspiracy would result in the economic collapse of the country, reiterating the example of the Soviet Union.
He claimed that the Sharif family has deep relations with Indian Prime Minister Modi and Indian businessmen, adding that being the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif did not meet Hurriyat leaders of Kashmir because it would have displeased his Indian counterpart.
Imran Khan said that Asif Ali Zardari is the ‘biggest disease’ of the country whose sickness is ‘money’.
PTI chairman said that he showed the alleged threatening letter to the National Assembly (NA) and President Dr Arif Alvi also asked the Supreme Court to probe into the alleged conspiracy but no heed was paid.
He reiterated that the Sharifs and Zardari did not speak up against the drone attacks in Pakistan, adding that they could not dare to speak against the foreign powers because their wealth is parked abroad.
PTI chairman said the only aim of the ‘imported government’ is to get rid of their corruption cases.
He also criticized the presence of Shehbaz Sharif’s absconder son in the meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, adding that the government is not only causing damage to the economy but morals.
The former prime once again criticized the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for being a partisan of the incumbent government and said rigging has been initiated through gerrymandering because the coalition parties cannot win the elections on their own.
He said the government has also started to intimidate people through police raids and framing fake cases.
He added that the violence the imported government resorted to against the ‘peaceful protesters on May 25-26 was unprecedented and vowed to fight against the ‘oppressors’ of this era till the last drop of his blood.
