PAT Chairman Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that the rulers have mortgaged the national integrity by taking excessive debts and loans and opened the door for the foreign interventions. He demanded that the PM must announce to bring back all of his foreign assets in the next fiscal budget. He wondered how it was possible to have foreign direct investment in the country when the family of the Prime Minister preferred to invest in the foreign lands. He regretted that the farmers and the students were economically ruined and unemployed despite producing surplus wheat and getting degrees.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that the economy would be strengthened through debt servicing and elimination of corruption. He was talking to the senior leadership via phone yesterday. He said that the prime minster of our country must feel ashamed while spending billions of rupees on foreign tours when the poor patients of his country were unable to get medicines and the children were unable to get education. He further added that the budget was the just paper work through which the international financial institutes were assured that the government would leave no stone unturned in peeling off the skin of people, noting that the claims of economic stability were the pack of lies as was the money trail of Panama scandal.

The PAT Chairman wondered how the economy could be termed stable when the farmers were protesting against the industrialists and the laborers were agitating against the government policies. He lamented that all over the world, government utilizes its national resources in providing the civic amenities of education, health, justice and social security but our corrupt rulers are constructing roads and bridges to ensure their commission and expansion of their individual businesses.

He said that millions of families were living in the miserable conditions and they were compelled to pay bills of electricity and gas and the school fee of their children. As long as corrupt rulers and exploitative system prevail, the poor would continue to be exploited and the country would continue to be crushed under the heavy burden of debts and loans.