PTI made another U-turn by announcing privatization of state entities: Sirajul Haq.

LAHORE -- Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul Haq has said the PTI has made another U-turn to its pledges by announcing the privatization of state entities.

Before selling out the government properties, he suggested, the prime minister should listen to his old speeches he made against the privatization policy of the former governments.

Addressing a training workshop of the JI workers at Mansoora on Thursday, he announced to resist the move which was tantamount to depriving a large number of government employees from their jobs.

How a government could run a state of 220 million people if it was unable to manage even a convention centre-a reference he made to the government plan to sell Jinnah Convention Centre Islamabad among other 33 properties.

Already on ventilator, he said, the ruling party was making foolish decisions with everyday passing. Had the government made recovery from those who looted the Steel Mills and PIA, there would have been no need to sell the state entities, he said. It was an irony that private transporters and airlines were making profits but the national carriers (PIA and Railways) were facing loss of billions of rupees, he said.

The JI chief also came down hard on the so-called mainstream opposition parties, saying they never raised voice on public issues but made noise only on the matters of their own interests. The PTI and its predecessors, said Sirajul Haq, were the agents of the status quo and sides of the same coin. The Imran Khan's party formed...