Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday flayed the PPP and the PML-N for their mismanaged government, pushing 50 percent of the population below poverty line.
Addressing a press conference at the PTI media office, Qureshi said the nation was suffering the hands of the two ruling political parties, the PPP and the PML-N, due to bad governance, defective economic planning, corruption and failure to maintain law and order. “The people of Pakistan will have to vote the PTI into power to save the country,” he said. He gave statistics to show how the country as a whole and Punjab in particular had incurred huge losses to the exchequer by indulging in useless projects of Sasti Roti, Danish Schools and Rapid Bus Transport System.
“The country is infested by inflation, unemployment, corruption and poverty as a result 50 percent of the population has gone below the poverty line,” he added. Qureshi said the Baloch did not trust the state agencies like police and the FC anymore “which will have an adverse impact on federation and weaken it”. On the issue of new provinces, he said the people of south Punjab did not trust both parties. “The PPP is playing this card to hide their poor performance and divert attention from real issues. An example of which is the parliamentary commission formed to address the issue is a joke… people in the commission are incompetent and do not know anything about the dynamics, demographics and ground realities of the south. Hazara province issue was also not taken up in the commission consisting of inexperienced individuals which shows the lack of will and seriousness.” “As far as the PML-N is concerned, it supports new provinces but is not willing to sit and talk. The PML-N, ruling 60 percent of Punjab, has disappointed the masses by its poor governance. Punjab had a bigger fiscal space but didn’t perform as they keep borrowing from state bank.” He said the World Bank gave large amounts for promotion of education, adding that of those Rs 6 billion was wasted on the laptop scheme which could have been spent on rural Punjab “besides Rs 80 million were spent on advertisements and personal projection”. Giving a brief analysis of the law and order being a provincial subject, Qureshi said there was an overall 21 percent increase in the crime rate in Punjab, 94.4 percent increase in car lifting, 100 percent increase in bank robberies, 102 percent increase in robberies, 22 percent increase in rape cases, 13 percent increase in kidnappings, and 15 percent increase in murder cases.
“At a Danish School an amount of Rs 16,000 is spent on a child whereas in a government school the expense is Rs 1,600. This results in creating a divide amongst the people. The amount spent on Danish schools could have been utilized for upgrading 660 primary schools to middle.” Talking about the health sector, he said the outbreak of dengue, adulterated medicines in PIC and manhandling YDA issue spoke volumes of the failure in the governance of the province. “Both the parties failed miserably due to inefficiency, corruption and poor governance,” he said. He said the PTI would announce its health and education policies in September which would give solid proposals for the welfare of the general public.
Qureshi flays PPP, PML-N for their mismanagement
