PM Shehbaz Sharif hits out at Opposition for pushing Pakistan to ‘destruction’

By Press Trust of India: Describing former premier Imran Khan and his celebration as “liars”, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday slammed the Opposition for pushing the cash-strapped nation within the course of “destruction”.

Addressing the federal cabinet on a day when Khan appeared sooner than the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in quest of bail in a corruption case, Sharif questioned the courts’ silence over the jailing of leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) celebration all through Khan’s tenure.

“Did they [the courts] ever take notice when we were being sent to jail?” he requested.

The prime minister termed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration chief’s declare {{that a}} US-backed conspiracy led to the ouster of his authorities as “untrue”.

Sharif, the president of PML-N, acknowledged that PTI Chairman Khan and his celebration are “liars” and are pushing Pakistan within the course of “destruction”.

He asserted that a number of National Security Committee has labelled Khan’s allegations as false.

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Sharif moreover pointed to the precarious monetary circumstances of the nation.

“The currency is navigating through difficult times, and the challenges we inherited are contributing immensely to aggravating the situation,” Pakistani media quoted Sharif as saying.

His suggestions acquired right here inside the wake of widespread protests triggered by Khan’s arrest from the IHC on Tuesday the place he appeared for a listening to in a corruption case.

Sharif lamented the violent protests and acknowledged that such scenes had not been witnessed given that fall of Dhaka a few years previously.

He recalled that protests had erupted even after the lack of lifetime of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto nonetheless no person “moved towards military installations”.

Sharif acknowledged the PTI protesters disrespected the martyrs of the nation in a signifies that was not even achieved by “our enemies”.

“The attacks on army installations â€æ there can be no greater terrorism in the country,” he acknowledged.

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He claimed that the Khan’s authorities violated an settlement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the current coalition authorities was making an attempt to revive it.

Pakistan, at current inside the throes of a severe monetary catastrophe, is grappling with extreme exterior debt, a weak native foreign exchange and dwindling abroad change reserves.

For the first time inside the nation’s historic previous, the US buck on Thursday hit the 300 rupees barrier in opposition to the native foreign exchange inside the interbank along with the open market.