Co-chairman Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) Asif Zardari has vowed to take exports to $60 billion in three years after coming into power in 2018. "We will provide stipend to women workers of stitching industry in order to revive the whole textile industry and turn Pakistan into export a incorporate country," he said.
He was addressing party workers at the Bilawal House on Thursday. He said the textile industry cannot revive without a flourishing stitching industry like Bangladesh. He further told party workers that the PPP would introduce stipend for farmer community besides announcing crop prices a year before production in order to avail its full potential. Pakistan can export agro products to China, he added.
He criticized the PML-N government for not exporting sugar worth $1.4 billion and predicted that the government was taking Pakistan towards a forced default and let the IMF to impose stringent conditions, including a reduction in army size besides other institutions. "We would not let it happen," he vowed.
He criticized former premier Nawaz Sharif for destroying economy. He said Nawaz Sharif has simply unveiled a plaque at Gwadar Port while the PPP was the government that initiated the project. "We got loans from China on 8 percent interest while the PML-N got costly loans for the same project," he added. He said Nawaz Sharif has closed down the whole industry and advised industrialists to stop supporting the Sharifs.
He also disclosed election strategy of the party by stating that Asifa Bhutto would hold public rallies in the province of Sindh and he would cover rest of the country along with Bilawal Bhutto. He criticized Imran Khan and repeatedly pointed out his follies during his address to the party workers. He said the KPK government could not construct a single college throughout its tenure. All colleges in KPK were constructed during the PPP regime, he said.
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