Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said the federal budget has been prepared on the dictation of the IMF, offering no relief to the pandemic and poverty-hit masses.
In a statement issued from JI headquarters Mansoora on Friday, he said the minister had read the accounting statement prepared by the international lending agency for the next financial year.
The statement read by the minister in the National Assembly, he said, was an exercise describing the PTI government had achieved nothing in the past year and it had developed a plan to provide nothing to common man during 2020-21.
The Imran Khan’s government, he added, has failed to achieve financial targets for the previous year, putting blame of its incompetency on coronavirus outbreak. He said it was a fact that the country’s economy had almost collapsed under the umbrella of the PTI government even before the outbreak of Covid-19 in March.
The JI chief said the government had not introduced any major programme of public welfare in the budget. The allocations for the federal and provincial development projects, he added, were meager which also included a major component of foreign loans. He also described the funds announced for the development of the tribal region as nothing when one compared it with the lack of infrastructure and unavailability of basic human needs in the area.
He criticized the rulers for not providing enough resources to the locust hit agriculture sector. He said the allocations for the health and education sector were not according to the expectations of the people.
Jamaat-e-Islami Deputy Ameer Liaqat Baloch has said the PTI government has also failed to address the issue of missing persons like its predecessors regimes of the PML-N, the PPP and Parvez Musharraf.
In a statement issued from Mansoora on Friday, he called for legislation on the issue of forced kidnapping. He said the enemies of the country could use the families of the missing persons to fulfill their vested interested if the issue was not resolved on priority basis.