Since PTI formed their government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, poverty levels have gone up by 9% to a whopping 27% today – says Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

 The Chairman Pakistan People’s Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has said that the PTI-led federal government has a unique talent in being absolutely shameless when it boldly and brazenly misleads the people. The Federal Government has, since its first day in office, been fudging numbers and stacking statistics in their favour. “Fudging economic figures may feed the large egos in the government, but it doesn’t feed the people. These alleged facts and figures are tantamount to gaslighting the lived experience of the people who are being crushed under the economic failures of Imran Khan.”

The Chairman PPP went on to say that since the PTI formed government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa nearly a decade ago, poverty levels have increased exponentially, with figures showing that poverty has gone up by 8.9% to a whopping 27% today.

In contrast, under the PPP the province of Sindh has managed to slash the poverty rate by 7.6 percent. The PPP government in Sindh has also overseen Sindhs rise in per capita income, with the province now leading in both rural and urban figures, he pointed out.

“Despite soul crushing inflation and rapidly increasing poverty levels, the PTI-led federal government is preparing to levy taxes on the pensions of the retired employees.”

The Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto said that the PPP was determined to protect the rights of pensioners and that it rejects any scheme that would seek to tax them. The proposed ten percent tax on pensions in next budget would only push people further to the brink.

The powers that foisted an incredibly inept government and Prime Minister on the country have done a great disservice to the country and its future, he added.

https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/24861/