RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League Chief, former Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said that next 10 days were important in country’s politics and key decisions were expected during these days.

In message on social networking site X, Sheikh Rasheed said real problem was poverty and economy, and not politics. Those who assumed power to give relief to poor masses had moved out of country. They got their cases closed in 16 months, plundered national wealth and pushed masses to edge of disaster.

He said those who had come to save state destroyed it because people were state. They (past rulers) played havoc with lives of people in 16 months. “There will be no stability in country if people are not prosperous,” he said.

“If industry and businesses do not run, economic condition of country will not improve,” said senior politician. He said if poor would not have access to basic necessities of life, how they would make both ends meet.

“People sitting in London are leading peaceful and luxurious life. They do not realise that high rates of electricity, petrol, flour and sugar are ruining lives of poor in Pakistan. They (PDM leaders) are solely responsible for all these crises, but they don’t care about that,” Rasheed said.

He said arrests were not solution to problems. He said since Liaquat Ali Khan till today, process of accountability was going on but no prominent figure had ever been punished.

He said law was helpless before influential people in society whereas poor were punished. Rasheed said 80 percent of sugar mills were owned by politicians. No other person could establish sugar mill. Every Cabinet had two or three sugar mills’ owners as ministers and they made decisions of their own choice during their tenure. Rasheed said these sugar mills’ owners as ministers in Cabinet focused more on their own interests and they had no interest in solving issues faced by people.

Rasheed said he was hopeful that Allah Almighty would improve conditions of this country and people would get their right to live. Those who were considering themselves above law, would be held accountable for their deeds and they would be brought within ambit of Constitution and law, he said.

Country would make progress if people abided by law and Constitution. “If Constitution and law are not followed, problems will complicate,” he said.

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 12 2023

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