PTI Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhary said the confession by Punjab
Government minister that more than 21 per cent people in the province were living below the poverty line speaks itself that Shabaz Sharif has done nothing for public welfare during the last seven years. He said it is shamefull that a large chunk of the people in the province is living underpoverty line while the self proclaimed Khadam e Alla is bent upon building Metros, bridges and highways.
He said no one is worried about the plight of these helpless people on theother hand just to please the IMF Ishaq Dar has agreed to slash the current year???s Public Sector Development Programme by another Rs20 billion.
He said he hopes that Khadam e Alla would come out from his virtual world and push his administration to think for the have nots of the society.
Secretary General Yasmin said unfortunately under the cruel rule of Sharif
Brothers the poor are dying or killing themselves for lack or non-availability of food. To end the end the poverty a meticulous planningand committed leadership is needed to get out of the prevailing crisis butthe ruling elite has no planning for the poor segment of the society butthe fill their own pockets she added.
She said the gap between the more privileged and the more backward has increased with time and this reflects in social, political and, ethnictensions, in revolts and in militancy. She said Shabaz Sharif need to ownthe poor no body from outside will come to rescue them.
Information Secretary Andleeb Abbas said around 60 per cent of the
Pakistani population faces food insecurity. She said running behind basicnecessities will never get out of it, and things will only get worse thepolicy makers have to think for the nation and not for just their friends and families.
She said the country???s Finance Minister is busy to sing a song onsingle-digit inflation, fattened reserves, the rupeesappreciation and arallying stock market on the other hand Human Development Report 2014 has revealed that half of the country???s population is in the clutches ofmulti-dimensional poverty. Which means that one out of two people in a population of over 188 million live below the poverty line she added.
She said how could the nation can come out of shackles of poverty wherethe ruling party has robbed Rs450 million from national exchequer on theadvertisement during PTI sit-in in Islamabad.