ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the inflation rate in the country has been surged by 14 percent.
While addressing the National Assembly session, Ahsan Iqbal said that inflation has broken all past records. The economic crisis was a result of the incumbent government’s incompetence, he added.
He said that the ineligibility of the incumbent government damaged the country in 18 months.
He while criticising the ruling party said that it smashed us for taking loans but it has added debt of Rs 11 trillion.
Deficit ratio during my party’s tenure was 5.9 percent which has now increased to 9 percent, he added.
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