LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill said on Sunday that the opposition parties’ criticism of the preference of government was baseless as Pakistan was now achieving successes on various counts and all its economic indicators were showing an upward trend.
He was addressing a news conference here at PID office while MPA Musarrat Jamshed Cheema and PTI Central Deputy Secretary Information Punjab Asim Shaukat Ali also accompanied him.
He said that the PMLN leadership was on the silent mode even in June the days of budget in which the opposition was supposed to give tough time to the treasury benches but the opposition had no point to object to the government that was very much serious for country’s development and uplifting the poor segments of society and taking corrective and effective measures to remove all weaknesses in the system for better public service delivery. Gill added that the parties blaming the PTI for having no skills to run affairs of the state had bankrupted the country through their loot and plunder of national exchequer and resources during their tenures in government. He recalled that in 2013 the PMLN had inherited $20,000 current account deficit (CAD) and $25,000 export revenue but at the end of its government term in 2018 the country’s CAD had increased manifold and export revenues decreased to the lowest level.