*ISLAMABAD – Former finance minister Asad Umar has said that if thePakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is incompetent then the PPP was the mostincompetent.*
Addressing the National Assembly session for the first time after beingremoved as finance minister, Asad Umar lashed out at the PPP, saying thatthey had changed four ‘expert’ finance ministers during their tenure. Headded that that the tenure of PPP’s from 2008 to 2013 was the worsteconomic period.
“Bilawal Sb, during your government four finance ministers were changed.One by one, all four brave finance ministers kept failing,” Umar said whileresponding to the PPP chairman’s criticism of the cabinet reshuffle.
In response to Bilawal saying that the PTI government is incapable, theformer finance minister asked, “Bilawal Sb was your father’s government themost incompetent and incapable?”
“I never called the PPP chairman a traitor. He alleged that the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) killed the economy. The government is incapable and afailure so I thought I should raise the curtain and unveil the truth behindthe allegations,” the PTI stalwart mentioned.
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Asad Umar said that not the shrieks of people can be heard because thecrackdown against the looted wealth of exchequer is being done. “Today theaccountability is being done of the corruption that was done during yourterm,” he asked.
The former finance minister explained that there is no easy solution toextract country from economic crisis. Difficult decisions have been madeand will need to be made in the future as well.
