Institution will be controversial if PM will get policy statement of ISPR delivered: Bilawal.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that if the government has something to say then a respective minister should come out and say it, saying that they (PPP) respect institutions and don't want to see them being made controversial in any way, saying that the institution will be controversial if Prime Minister (PM) will get the policy statement of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) delivered.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was expressing these views while addressing a press conference at Zardari House in Islamabad on Monday.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the government is favouring the rich and burdening the poor, saying that no one in the history of Pakistan took as much debt as they have taken in just several months of their government. Bilawal said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB)'s black law and democracy can't be run simultaneously.

The PPP chairperson criticized the government's performance on the economic front, alleging that it is favouring the rich and burdening the poor.

He urged the federal government to provide relief to the poor and instead go hard on the rich if it has to, in order to create fiscal space.

"No one in the history of Pakistan took as much debt as they have taken in just several months of their government. They celebrate upon securing loans. What is there to celebrate when the poor and the common man will have to bear the burden of paying off these loans?" Bilawal asked.

"The way they are running the economy, there will be a reaction from the poor spectrum of the society. If you want to create fiscal space and burden someone than burden the rich like Jahangir Tareen. For the rich you have an amnesty scheme but for the poor you have inflation.

"Ramazan is coming, where is your Ramazan package? I demand that the government review its economic policy, and provide relief to the poor wherever possible," he said.

Bilawal advised government to take inspiration from the PPP's management of the economy during turbulent times.

"Look at what the PPP did during its government," he said. "Despite global recession, terrorism at its peak, two floods and an environment of war, the PPP fought and gave most jobs than anyone else (6.8m), increased salaries by 150 per cent ... and did whatever was possible for the...