Islamabad
Renowned Economic Expert, Dr. Ashfaq Hassan said Sunday that the economic crisis, the country had to face, was deliberately orchestrated by the previous government.
In an interview, he said that when the political party leading the government in 2017 realized that it would not come into power due to Panama Leaks, it deliberately made the economic situation worse.
In an interview, Ashfaq Hassan said he had written in an article published in the December 2017 edition of News Magzaize Narratives that the way economic situation was being aggravated, it seemed that the country was being pushed towards International Monetary fund (IMF), adding that Panama leaks had already surfaced at that time.
“I am not any political person. I think that that the government of that time had come under heavy pressure due to Panama,” he said adding when the Panama trial was going on and the media was giving 24 hour coverage to it, the political party heading the government had realized that it was difficult for it to come to power.
So they though that they should make the situation worse to make it hard for the coming government to manage, he added.
He said that it was right of the opposition to criticize the government, however advised that it was better for it not to speak on economy. Explaining how that government made things worse, he said that imports of the century, which were around $41 billion till 2015-16, started increasing at fast pace adding that had that government wished, this surge could have been stopped.—APP
