By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr. Shahbaz Gill on Wednesday termed Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) as ‘corruption alliance’, said that it will disappear through its own tug-of-war.
Reacting to the statement of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) spokesperson Maryam Aurangzeb, he said struggle of PDM was not for public welfare but to save hide of their own corruption, said in a press release issued here.
He said the battle for the throne has also started within the incompetent league, PDM. Dr. Shahbaz Gill said the Prime Minister was focusing only on welfare of the people and recovery of the economy, adding that economic recovery was not being digested by the corrupt elements and the record deficit of US dollar 20 billion has been converted into surplus.
He said foreign remittances were also witnessing reasonable and constant increase during last 10 months and touching more than US dollar 2 billion mark every month which was not being digested by PDM.
He said the foreign exchange reserves were also showing positive signs and reached record four-year high. Dr. Shahbaz said that after 17 years, the current account has been in surplus for the last nine months.
He said the negative propaganda of corrupt gangs regarding economy will be exposed. Dr. Shahbaz Gill said that the corrupt alliance knows that the success of Prime Minister Imran Khan was their political demise.
Shehbaz on Monday had hosted a dinner reception for all mainstream opposition parties In what appeared to be an attempt to revive the PDM.
However, the effort apparently aimed at bringing the PPP back to the multiparty alliance remained ineffective as Bilawal did not attend the dinner though senior leaders of his party did.
Talking to media, PPP leader Farhatullah Babar said the meeting had broken the ice and provided a platform for the opposition leaders to get together and speak to one another. He also said it was not the PDM’s meeting and therefore the PDM issue had not come up for discussion at the event.
Babar said the PPP delegation had assured Shehbaz that the party would support all moves of the joint opposition that would block the way of “anti-people decisions” in the upcoming budget.
