PPP flayed for spending public money in Dubai

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PPP flayed for spending public money in Dubai



Thursday, July 10, 2008
By Our Correspondent

LAHORE

THE Jamaat-e-Islami has criticised what it called the sheer apathy of the PPP leadership towards the plight of the poor since the party leadership is wasting public money by staying and holding party meetings in luxurious Dubai hotels while the nation is suffering from hunger, poverty and price hike.

JI secretary general Syed Munawar Hasan said this while addressing a meeting with a delegation of businessmen at Mansoorah, said a press release issued on Wednesday.

Munawar asked the PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Zardari to justify spending huge public money on staying and holding meetings in Dubai.

He questioned that if the Pakistan Peoples Party was a ruling party of Pakistan or Dubai, and if the government had been increasing prices of petrol, power and gas to bear expenses of such luxuries.

He expressed sorrow that the Pakistan Peoples Party regime had forced the masses to swallow ‘bitter pills’ but letting its own leadership and other affluent people off scot-free by writing off their loans worth billions of rupees.

Munawar said the Pakistan Peoples Party leaders’ luxurious lifestyle give the impression that they were not the rulers of a country whose economy had been on the verge of collapse due to foreign and internal loans, massive corruption and bad governance.

“Those who plundered billions of rupees of the poor in previous decades have now got themselves a clean chit through the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and that explains why they are still squandering public money,” he said, adding that the masses were deceived in the recent elections as the politicians sought their votes in the name of ‘Roti, Kapra Aur Makan’ but they were actually forced to starve as the government withdrew all subsidies on the pressure of the IMF and the World Bank. He demanded immediate halt to the rising prices of essential commodities, petrol and power to provide relief to the masses.

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