fawad chaudhry in lahore, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr chaudhry, if ever there were a time in pakistan for politicians to put their partisan interests and differences aside and pull together for the good of the nation, it would be now, with your country facing a massive economic crisis. are you in the pti prepared to do that? yeah, we are all we all prepared to do that. but you will appreciate we are not a communist country. we are not a one party system that prevailing in pakistan. we are a democracy. and in democracy parties, do have their own programmes. but in democracy, parties do have their differences and it s same as in pakistan. so we have our programme and as when we were in the government and when imran khan was removed unconstitutionally through using illegal means, pakistan culminated into a huge political chaos and economic growth. this economic chaos that you referred to is actually the result of that political chaos that was created unnecessarily in paki
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan s former Information minister and senior figure in Imran Khan s PTI party. Could political chaos tip Iran.
yeah, i don t think the figures really bear that out mr chaudhry. but it s about promises made and promises not kept, isn t it? you say that you believe this government will be gone, you say within months, you think. but the truth is, many pakistanis think back to what promises were made by your government when you came to power, and they look at whether you actually kept them. and they would argue, i think, many that you didn t. for example, you said you were going to root out corruption in pakistan. the truth, again, the fact is that by the time you left office, pakistan had fallen down the internationally recognised corruption perception index by 20 places. you were getting more corrupt as a nation, not less under imran khan. well, frankly, imran khan gave pakistan probably one of the one of the cleanest government of 75 years. not a single corruption scandal can be attributed to the cabinet or to imran
Stephen Sackur speaks to Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan s former Information minister and senior figure in Imran Khan s PTI party. Could political chaos tip Iran.