Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay MuqamiHakoomat (JPJM) chairman Daniyal Aziz has said that the number of people living below poverty line in Pakistan has reached 90 million during last four years and further two million would face the same in coming months as the result of anti-people policies of so-called democratic rulers.
While commenting on a report of Multi-National Poverty Index about increasing poverty, Daniyal said the report was a slap on the face of corrupt, greedy and selfish rulers, who shamelessly claim to have delivered for the masses. Yes, they have delivered poverty, price-hike, unemployment and worst of every law and order to the people, who elected them in the name of roti, kapra aur makan, he added.
He said 58.5 percent population of Balochistan was living below poverty line whereas 43.8 percent people of Punjab were also poverty-struck people. He said it was cruel that people of Pakistan were committing suicide due to poverty while daily expenditures of the President House, which were one million rupees on daily basis in 2009, have reached Rs 1.4 million/day. The expenditures of Prime Minister’s Secretariat have increased to Rs 1.5 million/day from Rs 1.1 million/day and expenditures of cabinet division have reached Rs 8 million /day from Rs 4.5 million /day, Daniyal added.
He said further that 96 federal ministers and advisors spent nearly Rs 90 billion during last four years. He added that 100 percent increase was already recorded in the prices of edibles in one year and warned that price-hike would be double in coming months that would lead to worst law and order and crime rate in the country.
