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ISLAMABAD, (MANEND NEWS): Federal Minister for Information and
Broadcasting Chaudhary Fawad Hussain on Tuesday has invited
opposition to sit with the govt on electoral & judicial reforms.
Fawad has claimed that disunited opposition knows that their politics
are over and next five year also belong to ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-
Insaf (PTI) led government.
Participating in the budget debate in the National Assembly on
Tuesday, he said the opposition parties have the right to criticize the
government but responsibility also rests with it to make positive
contributions to the system. He said the opposition should come to
positive politics to collectively take the country forward.
The PTI government under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran
Khan has put the country on the right track with the economy
witnessing accelerated growth, he added.
The Information Minister invited the opposition parties to sit with the
government on important matters including electoral and judicial
reforms and said that the government will welcome the suggestions of
the opposition on the electoral reforms.
He said we want to strengthen the Election Commission of Pakistan
and the use of electronic voting machines is important to ensure
transparency and fairness in the elections.
Dubbing the period of 2008-18 as a period of darkness for Pakistan,
Chaudhary Fawad Hussain said the previous governments ruined the
economy through their policies. He pointed out that the country’s loans
were six thousand billion rupees by 2008 which increased to twenty six
thousand billion rupees by 2018.
He said today the situation is that we are paying two thousand billion
rupees per year in debt servicing. In addition, nine hundred billion
rupees are being paid as capacity payments to the power plants which
will increase to 1500 billion rupees by 2023.
Fawad Hussain said under the 18th amendment, a big share of
revenue goes to the provinces as 1600 to 1700 billion rupees went to
the Sindh province over the last two years under the NFC and another
700 to 750 billion rupees will go to the province during the next fiscal
year.
He further said that the provincial government in Sindh has done
nothing worthwhile for provision of basic amenities to the people. He
said this is the reason that the Prime Minister has stood up against
corruption.