Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said the economic crisis and terrorism challenges being faced by the country were created by the poor policies of previous government.
Talking to media during his visit to the Command and Control Center of Green Line BRTS at Sindh Infrastructure Development Company Limited (SIDCL) office, the minister said funds of about Rs. 470 billion were disbursed to the KPK government in last 9 years for anti-terrorism purposes however the PTI led KPK government distributed the funds among its MNAs and MPAs instead of utilizing the funds for the said purpose.
a result, he said, the KPK’s CTD remained inefficient department to counter the terrorism in the province while Shehbaz Sharif during his tenure as CM Punjab made the CTD Punjab most effective and capable institution. Ahsan Iqbal said PTI government in its 9 years rule in KPK did not make any steps to start safe city project in Peshawar, which was the most affected city of terrorism in the country.
He said the incumbent government, within short period of its tenure, would take the measures to bring country out of economic crisis and would take steps for ever lasting solution to the crisis. The minister said steps would be taken to make the export based economy and private sector would be provided all needed support by the government in this regard.
Youth of the country would be equipped with IT skills and programs would be launched by the government to impart vocational and technical training to youth so that they could meet the needs of international level employment market.
He said the public would hold the PTI leadership accountable for their poor performance, wrong decisions and putting the country in economic crisis. Ahsan Iqbal said the PTI leadership was working on an agenda to create anarchy in the country. The party had launched an unexampled campaign against the state institutions and were attempting to create differences among the institutions and masses.
To a question, he responded that despite not winning any seats from Karachi, the PML-N government launched a mega public transport and other projects in the city, keeping in view that the city was a financial capital of the country.
The PML-N government considered serving Karachi as its responsibility and the measures to improve its law and order situation were also taken during the tenure of PML-N government. Replying to another query the minister said the federal government would provide all needed cooperation to the provincial government for further improvement in the law and order situation of the megalopolis.
To question about rumors pertaining to derailment of democracy, Ahsan Iqbal answered that there were no any chances of derailment of democracy in the country. Anyone talking about derailment of democracy could be an enemy of Pakistan but not a friend.
