ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday slammed the federal government for rising inflation in the country, saying that the monthly inflation rate had gone through the roof at 11.1 percent.
In a statement, the PPP chairman pointed out that the annual inflation rate had reached 14.1 percent. “According to the WPI, the inflation rate has reached 16.6 percent; while according to the SPI, the inflation rate in the country has reached 21.3 percent.”
Bilawal said that Imran Khan’s government had unleashed a maelstrom of inflation in the country, adding that there seemed to be no decrease in inflation. “How can a country survive economically when it imports sugar and flour while producing wheat and sugarcane in abundance,” he questioned. He said that dastarkhwans (charity food) for the poor in the holy month of Ramazan were quite telling of Imran Khan’s incompetence at best and indifference at worst.
“People have been squeezed dry trying to survive this unbearable inflation under the selected government, whilst Imran Khans regime is adamant in not listening to anything but sycophantic praise for the puppet Prime Minister,” he added. Bilawal said that the Sindh government was trying to heal the wounds of inequality of the poor by issuing Benazir Mazdoor Card in these days of spiraling inflation.
“History will bear witness that when Imran Khan was wreaking havoc through increasing inflation, poverty and unemployment, the PPP was employing innovative ideas to provide relief to common man through the limited resources available to it,” he added.