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PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has taken the government to task after the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) approved an increase of Rs3.10 per unit in electricity prices on account of Fuel Charges Adjustment (FCA) for December 2021.
Rejecting the increase in electricity rates, the PML-N president and leader of the opposition in National Assembly said in a statement that the PTI-led government had done nothing to provide relief to the masses during its nearly four years in power.
Shehbaz said the miseries of the people could only be ended with the removal of “corrupt and incompetent” rulers.
“Now the time is ripe for the people to issue a no-confidence motion against them. We will rid the country from this tyrant regime.
“It has been proved that the government has only plans for inflation and corruption,” he remarked.
Shehbaz said instead of taking steps to ease inflation, the government was only increasing suffering of the people.
“Imran Niazi [Prime Minister Imran Khan] should step down instead of taking people’s lives through skyrocketing inflation,” he added.
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Likewise, JUI-F chief Maualana Fazlur Rehman also lashed out at the government’s policies saying that the PTI-led regime had failed on all fronts from foreign policy to economy.
Addressing a religious event near Lahore, Fazl asked if the country’s economy had been growing then why the finance ministry did not get appreciation award.
Fazl, who also heads the anti-government alliance, PDM, also questioned government’s claims of running a successful foreign policy, saying “then why Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was not given any award”.
“[PM] Imran Khan went to China where the Chinese leadership held talks with him via video link because China is not happy with Pakistan over the matter of CPEC,” he claimed.
He was referring to the recent ceremony where PM Imran awarded appreciation certificates to the top ten best performing federal ministers.
In order of performance, the top ministries are communications; planning and development; poverty alleviation and social safety division; education and professional training; human rights, industries and production; national security division; commerce; interior, and national food security and research.
Fazl said PM Imran was distributing awards among ministers while the common man was “suffering under poverty and unprecedented inflation”.