‘Anti-national’ PTI bent on sabotaging Pakistan-IMF deal: Tarar

Uncategorized , / Friday, March 29th, 2024

ISLAMABAD:
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said on Friday that a handful of “miscreants” associated with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were bent on sabotaging Pakistan’s deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is crucial for economic stability. “In a bid to disrupt Pakistan’s ongoing talks with the IMF, some miscreants protested in front of IMF and World Bank offices in the United States and indulged in sloganeering against the Pakistan Army,” he said while addressing a news conference in Islamabad. The protestors belonging to the PTI were urging the IMF to provide funds to Pakistan only if their jailed leader was released, he said, regretting that activists of an “anti-national party” continued to hold sit-ins.

and protests outside the IMF office. “This is a fashionable crowd, and these are the enemies of Pakistan who have no love for the country,” the minister said while paying tributes to the overseas Pakistanis who were sending their hard-earned money to the country through white and blue-collar jobs abroad. He said that these people were protesting to stop funding to the people of Pakistan who were wearing costly branded shoes and carrying branded bags. “They only wanted to sabotage the IMF deal because their dream was to make Pakistan default, but Insha-Allah, Pakistan would make progress, and the growth rate would increase soon. The heinous conspiracies of anti-national elements would not have any effect on the IMF deal,” the minister said emphatically, adding that the imprisoned PTI founder chairman Imran Khan was involved in Toshakhana fraud, a 190-million-pound scam, and the cipher case. He advised the PTI to approach the courts of Pakistan for the release of Imran as the IMF and World Bank had nothing to do with his cases. Tarar said that the country was stable today due to the sacrifices of martyrs, ghazis, and the efforts of patriotic political leaders.