Pakistan: PML-N govt obliging capitalists

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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo and Secretary Tanvir Ashraf Kaira have strongly criticised the privatisation policy and said that the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government is obliging capitalists by privatising national assets.

According to a press note issued here on Thursday, the PPP Punjab head held a meeting of the party office bearers from district Mundi Bahaudin and expressed solidarity with labour unions and human rights organizations those are planning to protest against loot sale in the garb of privatisation by the government.

He said that it was a tyrannical move to oblige the crony capitalists at the expense of the millions of families whose subsistence will be at stake due to the resultant massive redundancies besides negative blowback on the society. Wattoo said that the economic murder of the poor labourers would not be allowed come what may adding that instead of addressing the management issues of the state enterprises the government had embarked upon lining the pockets of the elite.

PPP leader that the PPP and its leadership would take up this issue at all forums to scuttle the move which was grossly at variance with the social justice and human rights. He assured the representatives of the trade unions that the PPP would not lag behind in the struggle to save the national assets going into the control of known favourites of the incumbent government.