ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday alleged the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf had introduced the worst kind of dictatorship in the country.
Declaring PTI as the ‘most corrupt’ in the country’s history, the PPP Chairman said that the government was ‘successfully robbing’ pockets of the people by raising taxes. Bilawal rejected the International Monetary Fund’s demand to impose income tax worth Rs 150 billion on the salaried class.
He also said that Budget 2021 was a document in which amnesty had been given to certain investors by taking money from people’s pockets. Commenting on the country’s situation, Bilawal accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of plotting to break the economic backbone of the common citizens.
“The incumbent government is ready to impose a 10 percent tax on pension and provident funds,” stated Chairman Bilawal. “The PTI government is even levying taxes on travel allowances of people associated with the newspaper industry. Add the rising inflation and poverty rate with these taxes, and the people will be left with a country at the brink of disaster,” he remarked.
Bilawal said: “Due to Imran Khan’s anti-people measures, hotel employees will no longer get a tax-free meal while on duty.”
He continued, “With the new budget, the puppet Prime Minister has also attacked employees of educational institutions who will no longer be able to provide free education to their children.”
Bilawal also said that after the end of tax exemption, the hospitals would no longer be able to provide free or discounted treatment to their employees.
He also declared the efforts to abolish medical allowances of the salaried class as an anti-people measure.
“While chanting the slogans of the state of Madinah, Imran Khan has established an empire inspired by the tyrant kings of the past,” the PPP Chairman stated, adding, “They are squeezing the blood of the people with unbearable taxes and creating luxuries for the elite.”