Bilawal hits hard on PM for being insensitive to rising inflation, poverty.

KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has hit hard on Imran Khan's PTI government for showing insensitivity towards rising inflation and ensuing poverty in the country.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, Bilawal Bhutto said that the rate of poverty was dangerously on the rise. He said with a 30% rise in poverty rate, 80.5 million people are standing on the edge of the poverty line. He said daily 15 to 20 people are ending their lives by committing suicide due to poverty.

Bilawal asked the Prime Minister Khan to come out of his dream world and assess the ground realities. He said for a common man life has become very hard. He said the government has again raised the power tariff to extract Rs 90 billion from the pockets of poor people.

He posed a question: if the inflation rate exceeds 14%, how would a common man survive? He said medicine prices in Pakistan have increased 100% adding that no one cares about the poor man.

Bilawal said the government makes amnesty schemes for the 'elite' and "langar khanas" for the poor. He told the prime minister that this won't work.

The PPP chairman said if rumours of 20% retrenchment in the industrial sector after Eid turned out to be true then the situation would become more difficult.

He said the premier who always blames corruption being the main reason behind the country's bad economic situation, it is in fact his anti-people thinking that has economically destroyed Pakistan.

Earlier, Election Commission of Pakistan on Sunday announced PPP's Qadir Khan Mandokhail name as having returned to the National Assembly following his victory in the NA-249 by-election in Karachi.

"In pursuance of the provision of sub-section (1) of Section 98 of the Elections Act, 2017, [...] the Election Commission of Pakistan hereby publishes the name of candidate returned to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a result of by-election held on 29.04.2021 from the under mentioned constituency," read the notification.

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on...