Hammad berates govt for economic crisis.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central Punjab general secretary Hammad Azhar has chided the PML-N government for failing to prepare budget and landing country's economy in a serious crisis.

'The incompetent government is now revising the budget,' he said.

Speaking at a news conference here on Thursday, Mr Azhar said the PML-N's 'imported' government was using IMF's name to hide its inability to handle the economic crisis it created soon after coming into power. He said the PTI government did not impose any tax during coronavirus pandemic and added that it did not increase the petrol prices though its rates were increased the world over.

Mr Azhar, a former energy minister, apprehended that the PML-N government was planning to increase power rates by 80 per cent in the next three months. He lambasted the PML-N government, saying Miftah Ismail used to say that the power unit total rate should be Rs12 but now he himself was all set to increase per unit power rate by Rs13. He regretted that the country was now facing 8,000MW shortage.

'We did not go home and continued working when power crisis touched 500MW in the PTI rule'.

Mr Azhar said Interior Minister Rana...