Bilawal vows to block passage of ‘PTI-IMF’ budget

Calling the upcoming national budget PTI-IMF budget, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday vowed to block its passage from the parliament, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

In a statement, Bilawal said if the budget, which, he alleged, had been made by those who were on the IMF’s payroll, was allowed to be passed, it would be an ‘attack’ on the country’s sovereignty.

“Every year before the budget, ‘selected’ Prime Minister Imran Khan announces that this will be the year of prosperity and progress, but contrary to his claim ‘financial destruction’, and not prosperity, ensues,” he deplored.

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Bilawal was of the view that ‘anti-people’ government could not make a pro-people budget. “Masses are now very much familiar with the present government’s tactics,” he said and added that the claim of filling the national exchequer with the money extorted from people’s pockets by levying heavy taxes was not a matter to be proud of, but of shame. “This is not economic progress at all,” he stated categorically.

PPP chairman wondered when the common man did not have enough money to buy expensive medicines, what he would do with PM Imran’s claims of economic development.

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He said the only standard of judging economic progress in civilized countries was to see whether ordinary people were living comfortably.

Bilawal said it was strange that the prime minister was boasting of promising economic indicators by borrowing loans on tough terms and conditions. “PTI government’s policies are not pro-people, but only serve the interests of few investors,” he alleged.