RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League Chief and former Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said the country was heading towards 'civil disobedience.' Using microblogging website X, senior politician said no one knew when elections would be held. Rasheed said 13 parties which had plunged country into sea of economic problems were now trying to be part of protest by shedding crocodile tears.

He said caretaker Finance Minister also said that financial crisis was worsening and 240 million people were at mercy of IMF. Without political stability, economic and financial stability could not be achieved, he added.

He said Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb had said that 2023 was darkest year in terms of implementation on Constitution and laws and his remarks stated much in few words.

AML head further said they (former ruling coalition partners) allowed to export sugar at Rs 85 (per kg) and were now going to import sugar at Rs 220 (per kg). For 75 years, sugar mafia and flour mafia had robbed poor and achieved their nefarious motives.

Thirteen incompetent parties responsible for economic disaster. He deplored that 16-month rule of 13 "incompetent" parties was cause of ruination of Pakistan's economy."

Taking to social media website X, ex-Minister wrote inflation had gone sky-high. Electricity bills have doubled. Soon, IMF will withdraw support.

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 01 2023

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