-SAPM Dr. Gill says Bilawal criticizing Budget without reading its book
By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Monday said Shehbaz Sharif had nothing to say against the federal budget 2021-22 as Prime Minister Imran Khan’s prudent political and economic strategy had cleaned bowled him.
In a tweet, he said how would the opposition leader criticize the government’s economic policies when he (Shehbaz Sharif ) was well aware of the fact that a company of his party’s former finance minister had earned the record profit.
Fawad said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had put Pakistan’s economy on the path of development. While the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)’s ‘Khattara’ (old & useless) bus had landed on an unpaved road of the downfall that had a dead end.
By reducing the prices of petroleum products despite an increase in the international market, he said Prime Minister Imran Khan had created a crisis of ‘political diesel’ for the opposition bus.
Meanwhile, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr. Shahbaz Gill on Monday said that the ‘Parchi’ Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was criticizing the budget without reading its book. In a reaction to the statement of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, he said previous governments have taken IMF programs for personal gain, not for the country.
He said economic experts have silenced the hypocrites by declaring the budget pro-people, said a statement issued here. Dr. Shahbaz Gill said that people from all walks of life were covered and facilitated in the budget.
He said the additional holding tax on edible oil and ghee and federal excise duty have been abolished.
He said the sales tax on vehicles up to 850 CC has been reduced from 17 to 12.5 percent. He said today once again stock exchange was booming, adding the index has risen to 1000 points since morning.
Earlier in the day, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif hit out at the government, accusing it of deceiving masses by disclosing “fake” numbers in the budget.
The leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly was speaking on the federal budget issued by the government a few days ago, lamenting that the poor were suffering from poverty while the government claimed it was on the path to economic growth and prosperity.
