PTI accepts Dar's challenge for 'live debate' on economy.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shaukat Tarin has accepted a challenge made by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar for holding a live debate to determine who pushed the country into economic quagmire as both sides are pining blames for catastrophic economic situation on each other.

During a televised address in response to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's statement wherein he slammed government for economic crisis, Mr Dar on Friday hit out at the former prime minister Imran Khan's government for bringing the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) growth, which was left at 6.10 per cent in 2018 by the PML-N government.

'During our previous government, international rating agencies were predicting Pakistan to join the G-20 by 2030,' the finance minister said.

Mr Dar said that Imran Khan's speech was full of 'lies' and the latter presented 'concocted false economic figures' of the current government, which were not based on reality.He said that today's economic crisis and inflation were due to the wrong economic policies of Imran Khan's government.

The finance minister said that 'we had a choice to save the country or our politics, but we sacrificed politics for the sake of...