Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Tuesday it would be wrong to say that inflation in the country was due to the present government’s policies, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Speaking to the media in Lahore, he said in fact it was the PTI’s four-year rule during which the country's economy went downhill. “Prior to that, when Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister, the inflation was under control.”

Dispelling the impression that anything bad would happen to Pakistan, he claimed that the country was again going to become a ‘financial hub’.

Dar said if PDM parties had not taken over after the ouster of the PTI government in April 2022, the country would have gone bankrupt. “The decision to ban the PTI will be taken after consulting the coalition parties,” the deputy PM said, adding, “Whatever decision is taken, will be as per law and the constitution.”

He claimed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had evidence that the PTI was funded from abroad.

Dar said he was in favour of political reconciliation. “I have been doing this all my life.”

“However, when it comes to the perpetrators of May 9 incidents of violence, there should be no mercy,” he stated categorically.