ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leaders have claimed that "it is going to be minus-PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) instead of minus-one".
They said this, while speaking at a news conference, here on Thursday.
The PML-N leaders including former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi also expressed their hope that the federal government would refrain from rigging in the elections in Gilgit-Baltistan.
"It's only in the mind of Imran Khan that it is going to be 'minus-one', instead it appears that it is going to be minus-PTI," Abbasi said, in response to a question, adding that the PML-N would not be a part of any undemocratic and unconstitutional step.
Meanwhile, Ahsan Iqbal maintained that "it is now going to be minus-incompetent...minus-'parachuters' and minus-corrupt."
He alleged that Prime Minister Imran Khan was defaming Pakistan due to his "ego", adding that it was not the opposition but the rulers' own actions that would prove to be the reason for the end of their government.
Referring to the election in Gilgit-Baltistan, he alleged that the government had already started pre-poll rigging, adding that the officials in Gilgit-Baltistan were being bribed "but they cannot allow rigging".
"Transparent elections should be held in GB without any political conflict in the sensitive areas," he added.
About the tragic incident that took place in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, he said that the Indian forces martyred a grandfather in front of a minor child, adding that the pictures that appeared on the social media had shaken the entire world.
Criticising government policies, he went on to say that the lockdown in IOJ&K was about to complete one year but our government could do nothing except for making speeches.
He said that Kashmiri people were being slaughtered every day in front of their children but the government had wasted a whole year.
He also demanded that a special session of the National Assembly on Kashmir issue be convened.
He said that Prime Minister Khan should have telephoned the US President, British Prime Minister, and all members of the Security Council to sensitise them on the situation in the occupied valley.
Speaking on the occasion, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi referred to the alleged 'episode of corruption in the provision of sugar to utility stores'.
He said that instead of opening a new tender to get the best price, the PTI government procured sugar for the utility stores at Rs 8.35 per kg more than the bulk rate offered by mills earlier for 60,000 tones 'which accounts for over Rs 50 million corruption'.
"The mills had offered a rate of Rs 70 per kg but the government bought it at Rs 78.33 per kg to benefit Imran's friends", he further alleged.
"This government can best be described as 'Friends of Khan Government," he said. Even after inquiries, reports, actions the price of sugar has not come down to Rs 55, which is the real price.
He urged the Supreme Court to take suo motu action over this, and said PML-N too will file a petition in this regard.
"Even after over Rs 180 billion 'looted' from the people and the new Rs 50 million corruption, the stores are still short of sugar and the misery of the people continues," he added.
He also pointed out that the government gave Rs 45 billion subsidy to the utility stores, and the fruits of which are nowhere to be seen and 'nobody knows which friend of Imran Khan bagged that massive amount'.
"The PTI government is the most corrupt government in the history of the country and once they will leave office, which will be very soon, it will start becoming clear how much was looted from which department under this government," he maintained.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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