ISLAMABAD – Pakistan People’s Party will stage nationwide protests against the rising inflation, unemployment and anti-people policies of the government on October 29, the party said yesterday.
Central Information Secretary Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Shazia Atta Marri said that thousands of people would participate across the country in the anti-government protests on the instructions of PPP’s Chairman Bilwal Bhutto Zardari.
Shazia Marri said that poor people of the country are suffering because of worst inflation, unemployment and economic woes but the government had failed to provide any relief to the people. In a statement, Marri uttered that only the PPP’s leadership has the ability to uplift the country’s economy and to get masses out from their miserable economic woes and difficulties.
She further said that hundreds of employees of Zarai Taraqiati Bank limited were fired yesterday from their services by the ruling government amid worst inflation which was very shameful and barbaric act of this government. She said that people should support the PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the upcoming general elections by their votes and he would never disappoint the people.
Says PPP Chairman will not disappoint masses after winning election
She added that false cases and trials were initiated against PPP leadership because they spoke for the rights of the common people while the incompetent and selected prime minister is only busy in taking loans by mortgaging the country.
Meanwhile, congratulating the Government of Sindh on start of the third phase of its Thar Coal Mining Project, Senator Taj Haider, Member Core Committee of the PPP pointed out that as against the present ex- Karachi Port prices of 270 dollars per tonne for imported coal, Thar coal will cost a mere 27 dollars per tonne on completion of the third phase, making electricity generation by the local coal the cheapest among all forms of electricity generation.
Senator Taj Haider said that it was a pity that instead of starting rail link between Islamkot and Chor which would enable the transport of the ten times cheaper Thar coal to other power plants, this government was busy round the clock in attacking the opposition and targeting the Election Commission of Pakistan.
While Gypsum is already being produced from the ash of the power plant at Thar the future programme of producing urea fertilizer from Thar coal at an easily accessible location, and the export of Thar coal is also held up because of the absence of the proposed rail link.
Senator Haider reminded that the IMF dictated policy of loans and imports was destroying the national economy and bringing misery to the people of Pakistan. “Our work force is being compelled to leave the country, many times at the risk of their own lives.”
“The only way to move our economy forward and to provide gainful employment to our work force is to mobilize our natural resources and to develop our human resources, which any elected and responsible government should undertake as its top priority,” he added.
Separately, PPP Secretary General Nayyar Bokhari condemned the Indian brutalities in held Kashmir.
In a message on Kashmir Black day, he said India must stop bloodshed in Kashmir and implement the UN resolution in the occupied territory. Bokhari said the people of Pakistan will continue supporting the Kashmir cause.