Sanaullah fears 'disaster' if 'fitna' returns to power.

FAISALABAD -- Firing fresh broadside at Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Saturday feared that Pakistan might witness a "disaster" if the "fitna" returns to power.

Addressing a ceremony in Faisalabad, the interior minister urged the nation to identify the 'man' - Khan - and exterminate him with the power of the vote.

Berating Khan, Sanaullah said that the former prime minister, under a plot, was spreading negative propaganda that the country would default.

The country has to face troubles due to the propaganda on the national and the international level, he added.

It is pertinent to mention here that during the week ended on December 30, 2022, the forex reserves held by the central bank, dropped by $245 million to $5.57 billion - the lowest level since April 2014 - down from last week's reserves of $5.821 billion.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, however, said that despite an uphill task, the country would meet its international obligations and not default.

Dar also sees Saudi Arabia and China beefing up their deposits in Pakistan "within a matter of days" and claimed that the forex reserves would see a rise gradually during the ongoing fiscal year.

The interior minister held Khan for the recent inflation in the country as the former prime minister had shattered the agreement signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

'The IMF is not interested in who the prime minister is,'...

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