Nawaz fooling farmers with Kisan Package: Shah

ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made fool of the farmers repeating the measures announced in the budget under the name of Kisan Package.
“If Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif presents budget documents in the Supreme Court, it will amount to a case against Kisan Package as the budget document includes all the measures that have been re-announced in the name of Kisan Package,” he told newsmen here Wednesday at the Parliament House.
The opposition leader said he had proposed the Sindh government buying the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) as it will be benefit for the province. He said around 3500 development proposals of over Rs4 trillion were lying in the Planning Commission but the government had a development budget of only Rs750 billion for the year.
On the government claims of ending loadshedding by 2018, he said he did not think that loadshedding will end by 2018 as the government has not yet started any mega project while work on many projects is also at standstill.
He said the government has raised prices of the petroleum products while their prices are coming down internationally. On construction of a mosque named General Raheel Sharif Mosque, the opposition leader said being a friend, he will advise him (Gen Raheel) to discourage such kind of things as such publicity was not giving good impression.
The opposition leader said the PML-N government had made payment of Rs480 billion of circular debt directly from the State Bank of Pakistan without audit. “If the PPP had made such payments, there will have been hue and cry everywhere,” he added.
He said during its tenure, the PPP had decided to make payments of 25 percent of the total circular debt while remaining amount was to be paid within two years but the PML-N government had made three full payment in one go.
He said during Dharna days when the PPP was supporting the government, one of the senior federal ministers said that the PPP was supporting the PML-N in parliament but when they come out from this crisis, they will stab in the back.
Shah said the Election Commission should be independent and it should not be afraid of anyone. He said spending on education is at lower ebb and it should be raised to bring prosperity to the country.