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ISLAMABAD: Budget triggers storm of indirect taxes on public, claims Bilawal Bilawal Bhutto delivering his speech in National Assembly.
Calling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government a ‘liar’, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Friday that the budget it had presented for the financial year, 2021-22 was also a ‘pack of lies’.
Speaking at the National Assembly (NA), Bilawal said, “The growth rate you have projected in the money bill at 4 percent has nothing to do with the reality. The budget has triggered a storm of indirect taxes on people. You have left them helpless. You keep saying ‘Ihsas, Ihsas’ (sympathy), but you have no sympathy with the masses.”
Bilawal further said that what had been happening in the National Assembly for the past few days was now all part of record, being recorded by the foreign embassies.
“The events of the last few days have exposed the government,” he said, and questioned, “If the government has taken it upon itself to behave like an opposition, then who will run the country?”
Bilawal said any attempt to edit his speech would fail. “You will have to listen to each and every word of my speech,” he said resolutely.
Bilawal said that contrary to the federal government’s promise with the Sindh government that there would be no discharge of water from the TP-Link Canal, water was released. “If the province’s Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah will not protest against ‘injustices’ being done to the province, then who else will. Donald Trump?,” he asked.
The PPP chairman said it was strange that when the Sindh government demanded the province’s share under the NFC Award, it was accused of playing the ‘Sindh Card’.
“This is not only Sindh. The truth of the matter is that the Centre is usurping the rights of all the provinces,” he commented.
