Imran fanning the flames of instability to halt IMF loan revival PM.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Saturday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-In- saf chairman Imran Khan was out to create hurdles in the revival of the Inter national Monetary Fund's porgramme which was reached during the previous tenure of PTI's government.

In a short statement in the Urdu language and shared by PM Office Media Wing, the prime minister said that the creation of chaos on roads and anarchy was a part and parcel of his agenda, aimed at fanning the flames of instability in the country. 'The timid person did not allow the courts to search him as he is guilty,' he added.

He said Imran Khan did not want the poor people of the country to be lifted from the issues of price inflation and economic pressure nor desired the steering of national resources. 'Imran Khan's evasion of courts amounts to the height of cowardice,' the prime minister observed. First, he (Imran) left the IMF programme and now resisting the courts, he said, adding he (IK) had also deviated from his promises and ideals.

On the other hand, the prime minister said, Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Muslim League-N faced the worst kind of vengeance at the hands of NAB-Niazi connivance in the past. 'We have faced the courts and laws in the trumpedup charges framed against our family members including sons, daughters and sisters,' he added. The leadership of PML-N endured the ordeals of death cells and braved the unfounded cases of heroin, he added.

'Agriculture production'

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday underlined the need for enhancing agriculture production to attain food autarky and thus save the country from different economic issues.

He also directed for effective resolution of the issues by improving the supply of food grains and food chain to the public through a comprehensive mechanism. The prime minister chaired a meeting to review progress on the ongoing reforms of the Agriculture Task Force and the upcoming cultivation of cotton, PM Office Media Wing said in a press release. During the meeting, the prime minister stressed upon early implementation of the agriculture reforms for increasing the agri-yield, besides making the federal and provincial agriculture research institutions more efficient. He regretted that being an agricultural country, Pakistan had been importing agricultural commodities.

The meeting was attended by Minister for National Food Security Tariq Bashir Cheema, Minister for Trade Syed Naveed Qamar, PM's Advisor Ahad Cheema, PM's...

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