Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has termed political stability as key to achieve economic prosperity and getting the people rid of inflation.
In a statement, he said that adversaries might want to push Pakistan toward default, but it would not happen with the resilience and support of the masses.
Political stability for economic growth
Shahbaz, whose coalition government has been facing the worst challenge of inflation, unemployment and energy crises, said that the people who had put land mines in Pakistan’s economic foundations were bent on doing the same to the country’s political foundation.
Shehbaz, while referring to his political rival party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf led by former prime minister Imran Khan, said that politicians had hurt public confidence in the past and were again out to dissolve assemblies to create political instability in Pakistan.
“Economic and political stability can further strengthen Pakistan’s solidarity,” he said. He vowed that his government would rid the people of Pakistan of the problems of employment and inflation in the same way they removed “a corrupt and liar government with the power of the constitution.”
“Besides hampering the rehabilitation of flood-affected people, the political miscreants want the world not to invest in Pakistan. The political mischief makers are least concerned about the sufferings of the flood-affected people and saving them from hunger, winter, and diseases,” he said.
Shehbaz said that it was necessary to get the country rid of these ‘political orphans’ to employ the youth of Pakistan.
He said that “It is clear that economic havoc and political instability resulted from an agenda.”
The prime minister urged the political opponents to have mercy on the people of Pakistan to bring them out of the quagmire of unemployment and poverty.
He said that the people were pushed into economic upheaval during the last four years of the previous government.
