Saeed Ghani, Firdous scuffle on social media over tax collection

ISLAMABAD: Firdous Ashiq Awan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Information and Broadcasting, and Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani initiated a scuffle on Twitter over the tax collection steps taken by the government.

While earlier taking to social media Firdos Ashiq Awan Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Information and Broadcasting said, “those who plundered the wealth of the nation and controlled the economy on fake estimates don’t even realize that tax collection witnessed a rise under Prime Minister Imran Khan’s leadership.

She further said, “the government generated a tax of 2085 billion rupees in the first half of this financial year with an improvement of 16.4 percent over the previous year.

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سعیدغنی صاحب آپ کی لاعلمی پرافسوس ہے۔قوم کامال لوٹنے اورجھوٹے اعدادو شمار پر معیشت چلانے والوں کو یہ بھی علم نہیں کہ وزیر اعظم عمران خان کی قیادت میں ٹیکس وصولیوں میں اضافہ ہوا ہے ۔رواں مالی سال کی ششماہی میں حاصل کردہ ٹیکس 2085ارب ہے جوپچھلے سال کے مقابلے میں 16.4فیصد زیادہ ہے

— Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan (@Dr_FirdousAwan) January 13, 2020

While Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani responded to Firdous Awan’s tweet, and he replied on twitter, ” the previous year was the only year in Pakistan’s history when, compared with the preceding year, your incompetent government collected less income and is also well behind its tax collection target this year.”

فردوس باجی لاعلم میں نہیں آپ ہیں گذشتہ مالی سال پاکستان کی تاریخ کا واحد سال تھا جب آپکی نااہل حکومت نے پچھلے سال کے مقابلے میں کم ریوینو اکٹھا کیا اور رواں سال بھی ٹارگٹ سے بہت پیچھے ہیں اور آپ موازنہ بھی اسی بدترین اعدادوشمار سے کررہی ہیں۔
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— Senator Saeed Ghani (@SaeedGhani1) January 13, 2020

Earlier on January 10, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan had said that steps have been taken to provide technical training to the students of seminaries.

In a series of tweets, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said that Prime Minister Imran Khan impressed the youth through his vision, steadfastness, and ideology who were frustrated over the corruption and dynastic politics in Pakistan.

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Awan said that Rs 30 billion ‘Hunarmand Pakistan Program’ would prove to be a milestone in imparting quality professional training to the youth.