Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Senator Ishaq Dar has written a letter to the Prime Minister through leader of the house in Senate urging that proposed housing scheme for the parliamentarians in Islamabad over an area of 1440 Kanals in Zone-IV of Islamabad should not be implemented.
In the letter, Ishaq Dar said, "It is considered decision of the PML-N that the proposed housing scheme in Islamabad must not be implemented." Keeping in view, the current huge public debt of around Rs 9,500 billion and serious macro-economic imbalances, mainly a legacy of the Musharraf dictatorship era, together with rising unemployment, energy crisis and alarming load shedding, increasing poverty and scarcity of the basic necessities for the common citizen, our beloved country needs to generate and save every possible source of revenue for the public exchequer to use the same for the welfare of the poor masses, the PML-N leader said in the letter.
"We therefore, feel that the proposed scheme may be converted by CDA into a commercial venture to transparently sell the plots in foreign currency to overseas Pakistanis which will not only generate profit and revenue for the public kitty but will also facilitate addition to our much needed foreign exchange reserves," Dar said in the letter.
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