Naya Pakistan: Elite gets windfall of Rs208bn, poor go empty-handed: Altaf Shakoor - Press Release issued by Pasban Democratic Party.

Karachi -- September 04, 2019 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Pasban Democratic Party (PDP)

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Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor has regretted that in Naya Pakistan the elite class is given a huge relief of Rs208billion, while the poor masses are given nothing. In a statement issued here Wednesday, he said the same practice of benefiting the elite industrialists and rich people which had b in vogue during the governments of Zardari and Nawaz Sharif is also becoming the hallmark of the new rulers. He asked what is the different between the old Pakistan of Nawaz Sharif and Zardari and the Naya Pakistan of Imran Khan.

He said with waiving off a huge amount of Rs208billion the PTI government has blemished its own face and axed its own foot, politically. He said this mammoth waiving off is now becoming the mother of all financial scandals in the history of Pakistan. Altaf Shakoor said the Prime Minister Imran Khan should clarify his position on this sensitive issue. He said the apologizers and spin masters of the government are misleading citizens by distorting facts in this regard. He said it seems that instead of ending poverty this junta is also bent to end the poor.

He demanded that the names of owners and major shareholders of those five fertilizer companies should be made public, who charged and collected tax from the farmers but did not deposit this tax amount in the government kitty. He said this is a plain fraud. He said giving industrial tycoons a windfall of Rs208billion in the head of gas infrastructure development cess (GIDC) is tantamount to a bizarre looting the government...