By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed on Monday said that the government does not feel threatened by the Opposition at all because “it is spineless”.
“In fact, Prime Minister Imran Khan is lucky that he got such a worthless Opposition,” the interior minister said while speaking to the media in Islamabad.
Rasheed also reacted to the Opposition’s criticism of the PTI-led government due to the rising inflation in the country and said that the situation arose due to the policies of the previous governments as well as the coronavirus situation in the country. Speaking about the Pakistan Democratic Movement, which is the Opposition’s anti-government campaign,Rasheed said that the movement has turned into a “dead entity.”
“This worthless Opposition has not been able to make any decision so far,” he said, adding that the PDM had set out to oust the government last December but almost one year on, it is still planning to oust it without taking any concrete actions.
“This is how politics work in this country. Every Opposition claims that the government would be ousted soon,” he said. The minister admitted that the country has been facing rising inflation and said that the incumbent government could not be blamed for it as it was the faulty policies of the previous government that has led to the current situation.
To top it all off, the government had to tackle the coronavirus situation because of which inflation could not be controlled, he said. He said that whenever he attends a cabinet meeting, he raises the issue of wheat and sugar crises in the country. “PM Imran Khan is trying his best to reduce inflation this year,” Rasheed said.
