Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Friday slammed a “handful of miscreants” protesting outside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund headquarters in the United States.
Addressing the media in Islamabad, the information minister said the country was not created for the agenda on which the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was acting. Slamming the PTI, Tarar said, “Their past behaviour was also anti-nationalist. They are demanding from the IMF to give Pakistan a grant after their leader is released.”
The minister claimed that the PTI would tell the nation that the US hatched a conspiracy to topple its government in 2022 but were holding protests in the US. “The anti-national party embroiled in May 9 incidents is working against Pakistan’s interests,” he maintained.
On the IMF mission’s visit to Pakistan, the minister said that the talks with the delegation were moving in a positive direction and is hopeful of good results. He said the prime minister wanted to resolve the national issues at the earliest, hence, he had given a comprehensive economic reforms agenda. The PM is also contemplating increasing the tax net, cutting government expenditures and restructuring the Federal Board of Revenue, he said.
These protesters belonging to the PTI were urging the IMF to give funds to Pakistan only if their jailed leader was released, Tarar said, regretting that “activists of an anti-national party” continued to hold sit-in and protest outside the IMF office.
