Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan has said that rulers were squandering billions on youth festivals at a time when dejected woman were strangulating their kids because of poverty.
Talking to the JI Information Secretary M Anwar Niazi by phone from Makkah on Wednesday, he said that the frequent increase in POL, gas and electricity prices had made the life of the common man miserable. The party coming into power on the ambitious programme of building Pakistan Asia’s economic tiger had practically ruined the country’s economy.
Hasan said that the government could not befool the masses through fictitious reports of economic revolution, especially because the World Bank had termed the economic situation of the country as alarming while according to the UN report, Pakistan was at the top in Asia on the poverty list.
He said the general public was already disappointed but the rulers were hell bent on selling out important national institutions to their cronies and friends on throw away prices which would add to unemployment.