Meetings between PM Imran, COAS Bajwa 'routine matter': Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry Monday said that meetings between Prime Minister Imran Khan and COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa are held in a routine manner and all matters have been resolved, ARY NEWS reported.

He said this while speaking to media just after Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa Monday visited National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC).

While criticizing the opposition parties, Fawad Chaudhry said that they are raising hue and cry over inflation in a usual manner and asked them to submit proposals if they have any to tackle the matter.

“We are taking measures to control the inflation and if they have any solution to deal with it then they should present it,” he said adding that their hue and cry for democracy was only aimed at securing a deal for them.

He lamented that the National Assembly session summoned to discuss the teachings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was turned into a political debate by the opposition.

He once again invited the opposition to sit with the government over NAB amendments and election reforms.

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The information minister also claimed that the prices of flour have declined in the country except for Sindh province.

“We cannot run the entire country on subsidy which is given from the taxpayer’s money,” he said while once again defending the hike in prices saying it happened owing to the global impact on prices of commodities.