Govt all-out to ensure stability, growth in country: Attaullah Tarar
Bureau Report
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said on Sunday that the country had been saved from default, and now the government’s entire focus was on ensuring stability and growth.
Addressing a press conference here, he said everyone was acknowledging that country’s economy was getting stable and even Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder had admitted it. He said inflation had reduced from 32 per cent to 4 per cent. “Is it not a responsibility of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government to set up price control committees besides appointing price control magistrates at tehsil and union council levels, he questioned.
Comparing to last year, prices of essential items were coming down, petrol price had reduced but why things in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were not improving. All micro-economic indicators were improving in the country under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he added.
He said that all political parties had their own manifestos under which they had contested general election.
He said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was in government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for almost 11 years adding that during last ten months misgovernance and corruption was witnessed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
While sharing white paper regarding performance of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government he highlighted financial corruption along with financial irregularities. Tarar said that metro bus in Lahore was started to facilitate
common man, but the initiative was termed ‘Jangla Bus’ by a certain person and later the model was replicated in Peshawar. He said that certain people were in habit of taking u-turns.
Information minister said that financial irregularities in KP government was estimated as Rs 152 billion. While giving details of the financial losses, Attaullah Tarar said there were fraudulent payments worth Rs 130 million;
Rs. 84 billion had been estimated as misclassified expenditures, and suspicious disbursement was calculated as Rs. 510 million.
