Pakistan approached IMF on its own conditions Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry on Friday said Pakistan approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on its own conditions, ARY News reported.

Speaking in the ARY News programme, the minister said ‘the government of Pakistan has prepared a model that the IMF agreed upon.” He added that the first condition put up by the IMF was too difficult. He underlined that Pakistan was now heading towards a stable economic position.

He accused the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Pakistan People’s Party leaders of plundering national wealth and sending it abroad to their children.

‘The previous two governments borrowed $60 billion in last 10 years, where did it go?,’ the minister asked. He said the country’s debt could be cleared if Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari collectively give $8 million.

He said Bilawal Bhutto and Maryam Nawaz were running ‘Abbu Bachao Tehreek’. “One of them is demanding to keep her father out of jail, while the other is calling for protection of his father from jail”, mocked the minister.

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He said Bilawal Bhutto was quite vocal about Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), but the Sindh was the only province reluctant to give FATA three percent of its share.

He added that Punjab, Balochistan and KP were ready to give their 3% share to FATA.

He termed the opposition’s movement against the government as ‘non-serious’. He said they [opposition leaders] were merely doing politics on different issues.

Fawad Chaudhry remarked that movements couldn’t be run to save corruption done by top party leaders. He reiterated that PPP and the PML-N had lost popularity among the masses.

To a question, he said it was prerogative of the prime minister to shuffle members of the federal cabinet. He dismissed reports that any changes were under consideration to change portfolio of any minister belonging to the cabinet.