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Leader of Opposition in National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that raising slogans against heads of state institutions at public gatherings was against national interest.
Speaking to the media in Lahore, he said that whoever chanted slogans during the Faisalabad rally had nothing to do with his party.
The PML-N president said that inflation was the biggest problem of Pakistan, against which the opposition had mobilised, adding that inflation had made life difficult for the people all over Pakistan while unemployment too was on the rise.
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"These people used to say that if there is inflation in the country then the prime minister is corrupt. Today, people are starving due to high inflation with the prime minister taking a u-turn on every issue," he added.
Shehbaz said that people were fed up with the PTI-led government and the time for it to “go home” had come. "We will not tolerate it anymore… our movement has started and we will expose the government now."
The opposition leader said that only the parliament guaranteed the rule of law. However, he added, the government was running affairs through presidential ordinances.
Shehbaz, in a statement issued earlier, had said that every minute of this government was costing Pakistan billions of dollars. "Raising food prices further after announcing to control inflation… is this what you had promised," he questioned.
"This government is deceiving and lying to both people and IMF."
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Earlier, in his speech during a National Assembly session, Shehbaz said that price hike was hitting the masses like drone strikes, adding that everyone would say that it was the worst government in 74 years.
“People are starving. Flour and pulses are out of reach of a family earning Rs20,000 a month,” Shehbaz told the lawmakers. “This government has become a heavy burden on the country today. We hear from the government about the State of Madina day and night but there is no comparison between the governance and the State of Madina,” he added.
“There was no injustice or dearness in the State of Madinah, no one was sleeping hungry, there was no unemployment, there was no injustice with the widows. This government, in the name of State of Madinah, increased electricity tariff. How the poor masses would pay for electricity bill and medicines?”
The opposition leader said that the government tried tooth and nail to meet the conditions imposed by the IMF for its loans, yet the global lender was still not satisfied. “Only God knows what this disaster would culminate in. The economy has been ruined,” he added.
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