Islamabad: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra to resign and PTI Senator Shaukat Tarin to quit politics for trying to sabotage Pakistan’s interests after audio leaks of their conversation regarding resumption of crucial International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme surfaced.

In one of audio clips that are being widely played on television channels, Tarin can be heard asking Jhagra to write a letter to federal government to let it know that KP would not be able to commit to a provincial surplus in light of recent floods that have wreaked havoc in Pakistan.

In other audio, Tarin can be heard asking Punjab Finance Minister Mohsin Leghari to do same.

In his presser, Ismail referred to both audio leaks as well as a letter Jhagra had written to him last week in which he conveyed his administration’s inability to provide a provincial surplus this year. Miftah alleged that Jhagra had sent letter to IMF before sending it to him. “I checked with them IMF within an hour of receiving letter and they already had it.

He urged PTI supporters to question party chairman Imran Khan about whether letter Jhagra wrote was in state’s interest.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 30 2022

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