Thursday, June 18, 2020
وزیراعلیٰ کےاختیارات کو ڈکٹیٹر کے برابر کہنا افسوس ناک ہے، بلاول
چیئرمین پیپلزپارٹی بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا ہے کہ عمران خان نے عالمی ادارہ صحت کی وارننگ کو بھی چٹکیوں میں اڑادیا۔ ایک وزیراعلیٰ کے آئینی اختیارات کو ڈکٹیٹر کے اختیارات کے برابر قرار دینا افسوس ناک ہے۔
چیئرمین پیپلزپارٹی بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے پارٹی کے سینئر رہنماؤں نیربخاری، فرحت اللّٰہ بابر، شیری رحمان، راجہ پرویزاشرف، رضاربانی، نویدقمر، مولابخش چانڈیو اور نفیسہ کو فون کیا۔
بلاول بھٹو نے پارٹی رہنماؤں سے کہا کہ حکومتی نااہلیوں، عوام دشمن بجٹ اور سیاسی صورتحال پر جلد اے پی سی بلائی جائیگی، عمران خان کے غلط فیصلوں کے باعث آج ملک میں کورونا وباء بےقابو ہوچکی، حیرت ہے اتنی اموات کے باوجود عمران خان لاک ڈاؤن نہ کرنےکی ضد پر اڑے ہیں۔
انھوں نے کہا کہ عالمی ادارہ صحت کی وارننگ کو بھی عمران خان نے چٹکیوں میں اڑادیا۔ بلاول بھٹوزرداری نے مزید کہا کہ اپوزیشن بری لگتی ہے تو عمران خان لاک ڈاؤن پر ڈبلیو ایچ او یا ڈاکٹروں کی رائےسن لیں، بجٹ میں صحت، زراعت کے شعبے نظر انداز کرکے ملک کو خطرناک حالات کے حوالے کر دیا گیا۔
بلاول بھٹو نے کہا کہ وزیراعظم کے بعض بیانات سے اندازہ ہوا انہیں علم ہی نہیں این ایف سی ایوارڈ کیا ہے، انتظامی سربراہ صوبوں میں وسائل کی تقسیم کی اہمیت سے لاعلم ہے تو ملک کیسے چلے گا؟ ایک وزیراعلیٰ کے آئینی اختیارات کو ڈکٹیٹر کے اختیارات کے برابر قرار دینا افسوس ناک ہے۔
بلاول بھٹو نے کہا کہ اٹھارہویں آئینی ترمیم کے خلاف عمران خان کے بیانات تشویش ناک ہیں، عمران خان کے 18ویں آئینی ترمیم کیخلاف بیانات دستور پاکستان پر حملہ ہیں۔
انہوں نے کہا کہ ٹِڈیوں کے باعث قحط پڑا تو تباہی کے ذمہ دار عمران خان ہوں گے، عمران خان کو شاید اندازہ ہی نہیں ٹِڈیوں کے حملے انتہائی سنگین بحران ہیں، بلاول بھٹو نے پارٹی کے سینئیر رہنمائوں کو ہدایت کی کہ وہ حکومتی نااہلیاں سامنے لانے کیلیے مؤثر کردار اداکریں، اور وہ پارلیمان اورعوام کے درمیان جاکر حکومتی نااہلی سےآگاہی دیں۔
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says that his Party intends to call an APC for adopting a cohesive national narrative for taking the country out of a slew of multiple crises.
Speaking during a consultative meeting via a telephone-conference with the Party’s senior leadership, the Chairman observed that an ignorant, disconnected, callous and arrogant Prime Minister who has little knowledge about the Constitution and its importance has declared the Constitutional powers of the elected Chief Ministers’ as dictatorial. He obviously has no idea of how a federation works let alone the significance of distribution of resources among the federating units.
Those who joined the conference call and shared their views include, Raja Parvez Ashraf, Senator Sherry Rehman, Syed Naveed Qamar, Maula Bux Chandio, Farhatullah Babur, and Dr Nafisa Shah.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the disastrous policies and confused messaging of Imran Khan have allowed the pandemic to spin out of control and everyone is surprised that he appears adamant against a lockdown despite a huge surge in deaths due to the virus. “Prime Minister has openly ignored the warnings from WHO, health professionals and the Opposition,” he added.
He said that PTI government has pushed the country into a very dangerous situation by neglecting health and agriculture in the budget and warned that Imran Khan would be held responsible if locust attacks dragged Pakistan into a famine.
PPP Chairman pointed out that certain statements of Prime Minister Imran Khan show that he is not aware about the importance of NFC Award, questioning as to how a country will run when its Chief Executive is unaware of the importance of distribution of resources among the federating units.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari expressed concern about Imran Khan’s statements against 18th Amendment and termed the same as an attack on 1973 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
He exhorted the Party leaders to play an effective role in exposing the incompetence of Imran Khan in front of the people and Parliament before he destroys everything this nation has built through the hard work and sacrifices of its people since independence.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/2020/06/18/chairman-ppp-bilawal-bhutto-zardari-says-that-his-party-intends-to-call-an-apc-for-adopting-a-cohesive-national-narrative-for-taking-the-country-out-of-a-slew-of-multiple-crises/
Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari appreciates People’s government of Sindh for presenting a balanced budget
During a video-link call with Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah after he presented Sindh budget and attended NCOC meeting, the PPP Chairman said by increasing the salaries upto 10% of the provincial government employees and earmarking massive funds for health, education and agriculture sectors, the Sindh government has displayed its commitment to its citizens despite fiscal constraints and Federal government’s non-cooperative attitude.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari pointed out that PTI governments in centre and other provinces chose to throw their employees at the mercy of unbearable inflation and price-hike but Sindh government raised salaries, injected more funds into healthcare system to save lives threatened by coronavirus and other diseases.
PPP Chairman said that PTI governments have neither the will nor any capacity to think of the people to conceive planning for public welfare as they are lagging behind while Sindh has allocated huge funds for poverty-reduction programme through Social Welfare Department on Union Council level.
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah informed that Sindh has presented pro-people, pro-poor, pro-farmers budget during the worst financial crisis as Federal government gulped Rs229 billion from its share during the current fiscal year.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/2020/06/18/chairman-ppp-bilawal-bhutto-zardari-appreciates-peoples-government-of-sindh-for-presenting-a-balanced-budget/
Guess who the Imran Khan govt is blaming for Covid spike? The ‘jahil’ people of Pakistan
By NAILA INAYAT
PM Imran Khan and his PTI ministers rather blame their own citizens than admit they botched Pakistan’s Covid-19 response.
The Imran Khan-led government of Pakistan has found a new scapegoat to blame for the rise in coronavirus infections and fatalities — the people of Pakistan.
We are the ones responsible for our own demise, for we are so non-serious and “jahil” or illiterate, according to Punjab health minister Yasmin Rashid, that we don’t realise the severity of the situation.
How many governments in the world have thrown their own people under the bus when it comes to taking responsibility for the late action in the fight against the Covid-19 crisis? I can think of just one right now.
Coronavirus just a ‘flu’
How did we reach here? It is clear that after blaming the opposition parties for too long, there had to be a new villain in the house. Enter the poor jahil people, who have so long heard their prime minister and his team trivialise the coronavirus.
We were told by PM Imran Khan that the coronavirus, at best, was just a flu, which would go away in no time. It was something that would die in our dry and scorching hot weather. Follow their lead and just ghabrana nahin.Deaths, what deaths? Traffic accidents took many more lives, according to federal planning minister Asad Umar. Did anyone talk about banning cars? Deadly? Nope, it was just dangerous. Who said that? Ironically, Pakistan’s information minister Firdous Ashiq Awan.Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) government in Sindh was only “exaggerating” Covid-19 figures: if you would visit the hospitals, you would find nothing at all. Oh this virus is just “type C” in Pakistan. We are winning it, we are killing it, even the New York governor is going to copy Imran Khan, according to communications minister Murad Saeed. It’s a different matter that governor Andrew Cuomo never mentioned Pakistan or Imran Khan. Look at us, we were the only Muslim country that didn’t even close the mosques.
Lockdown is just a fashion statement. Lockdown is for the elite, Imran Khan reminded us. No good will ever come from these lockdowns. People will die of hunger, the same people who will now be responsible for their own deaths. Why should Pakistan follow other countries where lockdowns were the only way to curb the virus that has no cure? Doctors pleading for lockdown were only politicians in doctors’ coats, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) knows that. New York went “bankrupt” due to the lockdown. Though the fake news of New York going bankrupt still hasn’t reached the US.
A new low
But still, the people are “jahil”. Let’s blame the Pakistani citizens for the confused and haywire messaging of Imran Khan’s government from day one.
But it wasn’t just poor messaging. First, there was no lockdown, then the government lifted whatever it thought was a lockdown: all markets, bazaars, shopping malls, parks and other businesses were reopened. Public transport, domestic air travel and even international flights are set to resume from 20 June. With no stringent measures put in place for social distancing, wearing a mask, or any other SOP, everything was opened. The problem is that the PTI government never imposed a strict lockdown in Pakistan, and now, at the peak of the virus spread, finds itself with tail between its legs.
While one government representative says the country is understating virus infections and deaths, there is another minister who feels Pakistan is doing better than India. Time and again, Imran Khan and his team have asked people to not compare Pakistan with New Zealand, or even Vietnam for that matter. Yet, they compare themselves with India. So let’s compare. That Pakistan has highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths per million in the region, higher than India, is an indication of the lack of any decisive Covid-19 policy. The rhetorical road, with PM Khan offering to share his cash transfer programme with India and being responded with “our stimulus package is as large as the GDP of Pakistan,” shows the frivolity of this government.
And so, this mass confusion, which the government thinks is its Covid-19 response, has to be now dumped onto the people of Pakistan and they have to be accountable for their own life and death. It doesn’t augur well for a country that claims to become a welfare state like Medina.To call the citizens of your own country “jahil” (illiterate) and “ajeeb makhlooq” (weird creatures), particularly the Lahoris, just because as a government you can’t take responsibility for your failures, is a low for any political leader. After all, these are the same people who you plead for votes in the name of promises. But then, it is not a new low — PM Imran Khan had called all those people welcoming Nawaz Sharif “donkeys”.
The people of Pakistan know who really is “jahil” more than ever now.
https://theprint.in/opinion/letter-from-pakistan/imran-khan-govt-blaming-people-of-pakistan-for-covid-spike/443865/
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