People want to get rid of PTI govt, says Zardari
May 27, 2020 02:26 PM
Former president Asif Ali Zardari said the people had become tired of the incumbent government because of alarming inflation and wanted to get rid of it.
According to 24NewsHD TV channel, Zardari, who was talking to senior PPP leader Nayyar Hussain Bokhari, said the Centre did not have any strategy to control the coronavirus pandemic.
He also blasted the government over its inability to tackle the locust attack. Locusts have destroyed crops but the federal government seemingly did not have any planning.
Zardari said he had been warning about the destruction caused by locusts from day one.
Locusts have engulfed the entire country and destroyed the crops, he said, adding that ignoring a serious problem like locusts were condemnable.
The Sindh government has been warning about the serious threat but the Centre failed to pay attention to these calls.
On April 1,Sindh Agriculture Minister Ismail Rahu said the incompetence and laziness shown by the Centre had threatened the agriculture sector in the entire country.
He warned that any further delay in aerial and ground spray would result in paying a very high cost.
Earlier on Tuesday, PML-N secretary-general Ahsan Iqbal blasted the government for not doing anything to control the locust attack, saying spending Rs100 million on a timely spray at entry points [to the country] would have saved the country from Rs800 billion loss to crops.
In a tweet, Ahsan described it as another disaster on the part of the government and said crops and plants had been destroyed over hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
He also addressed a press conference and said the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) had warned Pakistan about the locust attack and their path, but the government did not pay any attention.
The incompetent and inexperienced government creates a new problem for Pakistan every day, as they do not believe that they have entered the power corridors after leaving the D-Chowk, the senior PML-N leader remarked at a press conference in Lahore.
Ahsan said the government believed that getting the political rivals arrested through NAB was a solution to all the problems.
The only thing they do is the character assassination of opposition, the only thing they do is disrespecting the opposition, he added.