Economic Survey doesn’t depict facts: Bilawal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has rejected the Economic Survey 2021, saying that it did not depict the country's actual conditions and if the economic survey does not accurately identify the problems of people, how these issues will be resolved.

“Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen a historic rise in poverty and since the incompetent government wants to hide these numbers from the public, they have removed the statistics regarding poverty from the economic survey,” he said in a statement on Friday. He said hiding poverty and unemployment statistics and making excuses for inflation is not the solution. “A record rise in the unemployment rate in Pakistan’s history is the real face of Imran Khan's change,” he said.

He warned the PM to take note of the plight of the underprivileged who are suffering due to the PTI negligence. He said the prime minister is not bearing the burden of the PTIMF budget. “It is the people who are paying a high price for Imran Khan’s ineptitude by being exposed to a devastating rate of inflation, unemployment, and poverty,” he said.