ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan chief, Senator Sirajul Haq Wednesday, while flaying the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s two years term in power has said that the ruling party instead of developing the country has taken every step to destabilise and ruin Pakistan.

Addressing a press conference here, he also lambasted the main opposition parties in the parliament, saying that the opposition parties were joining hands with the PTI government inside the parliament to legislate International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-given agenda but were parting ways on other national issues.

He asked Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan to take a firm stand on Palestine issue as per the saying of the Quaid-e-Azam who categorically rejected the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.

Haq said that the PTI government had ruined the future of Pakistani youth as it had borrowed record local and international loans, which had reached Rs43,000 billion mark.

He said the PTI government had taken rupee dollar parity to record level of Rs168 from Rs115 within just two years and gold price from Rs57,000 per tola to Rs130,000 per tola.

Haq said the PTI government had failed to perform in any sector in the past two years despite full patronage of the security establishment.

The incumbent setup, he said during past two years had completely destroyed the economy, introduced worst governance and run a tainted accountability drive.

In fact, he said, the present government was a continuation of the former regimes but it deceived the masses in the name of "change and Naya Pakistan".

The rulers, he said, put curbs on media freedoms, and tighten the debt trap around the country, enslaving the nation to the international powers.

The state of media in Pakistan has worsened in two years as leading national/regional newspapers and TV channels are being pressurized to spread government sponsored propaganda and journalists who oppose it have to lose their jobs.

Sirajul Haq said that the government has done nothing other than speaking lies, and asked the government that where are 10 million jobs and five million houses. The JI leader said like General Ziaul Haq and General Pervez Musharraf, the PTI would soon say that they could not do anything.

To a question, he said that Quaid-e-Azam's position on Israel was clear and unequivocal that "Israel is an occupier and a thug" thus, we should not make friendship with Israel.

He demanded that Imran Khan should take a clear stance on the issue.

Sirajul Haq, while further criticising the government polices of the past two years in connection with accountability, said that the so-called anti-corruption drive through the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had become a tool of victimization, disappointing the people whom the PTI had pledged to introduce a powerful, transparent and across the board accountability.

Pakistan faced isolation on external fronts, nothing was done for the Kashmir cause, which was a clear proof of the government's frail foreign policy, he said, adding the government machinery was now creating doubts on the policy regarding Israel.

He said mafias were running the government affairs, looting the country's resources and making it impossible for a common man to meet both ends.

He said inflation and unemployment were on a rampage and the country in reality had been handed over to the IMF.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020