PTI Conspiring To Ruin Pakistan, Claims Miftah.

ISLAMABAD -- Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Monday lamAbasted the PTI's leaderAship for allegedly conAspiring to sabotage the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program.

'The flood has caused destruction everyAwhere in the country. Pakistan is sinking, and IMF is the only support we have. [But] the PTI committed a mean act. Asad Umar gave explaAnations on behalf of Shaukat Tarin. He was not ashamed,' said the Finance Minister at a press conference here.

He criticized the PTI on the leaked audio in which former Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin is directing Punjab and Khyber PakhtunkhaAwa's finance ministers to backtrack from the already signed MemoArandum of UnderstandAing (MoU) with the CenAtre for generating a revenue surplus during the current fiscal year, in order to damage the IMF's deal.

Miftah said that exApected losses due to floods are projected at around $10 billion. He said that the governAment would talk with the IMF on the post-flood situation. He furAther said that the govAernment could consider importing vegetables and other edible items from India for the faAcilitation of the people in the wake of destrucAtion of standing crops in Pakistan due to reAcent floods. Prime MinAaround $10 billion. He said that the government would talk with the IMF on the post-flood situation. He furAther said that the government could consider importing vegetables and other edible items from India for the facilitation of the people in the wake of destruction of standing crops in Pakistan due to recent floods. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had already announced Rs15 billion for Sindh, Rs7.5 billion for Balochistan and there is more demand of Rs100 bilAlion, he added. The Finance Minister said that Shaukat Tarin is the masAtermind of the whole conspiracy. If you are clever, are we children? Do we not understand (your tactics)?' he...

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