Bilawal questions ISI, IB probing food smuggling in country.

Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Friday slammed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government for 'compromising on the economic rights of the people of Pakistan' and accepting all the demands put forward by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Speaking to media in Lahore, the PPP chairman also questioned the PTI government's decision to involve country's intelligence agencies in crackdown against smuggling of food items and other goods. "Are they [intelligence agencies] supposed to fight terrorism, or are they supposed to investigate the fallout from the current government's economic policies?" he asked, referring to a directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan to the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to monitor crackdown against smuggling of food items.

Bilawal alleged that the incumbent government does not know how to run the country's economy. "The government is not fulfilling the promises it had made, and the promises they made were incorrect," he said, and further lamented that the government took over a year to approach the IMF for a bailout package.

The PPP chairman also criticised the PTI government's deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "What kind of a deal is this where the IMF representative come to Pakistan, speak to the head of the State Bank who was also associated with the Fund in the past, and decide the economic rights of the people?" he wondered. "The people of Pakistan should be making these decisions. But...