ISLAMABAD: PPP parliamentary leader in the Senate Senator Sherry Rehman said they had visited to convey to the Election Commission of Pakistan their concerns and grievances with regards to the.
ISLAMABAD: PPP’s parliamentary leader in the Senate Sherry Rehman slammed the federal government for depriving three provinces of water and opening Tuansa-Panjnad Link Canal, saying it is.
National
May 5, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the Senate Sherry Rehman on Tuesday demanded that PTI-IMF conditions be laid before the parliament.
“After telling them all along that these tariff hikes are unjustified, now we hear that the government is thinking to renegotiate the IMF agreement. We have been saying the exact thing but were always told by ‘U-turn Sarkar’ that they are on the right track,” she said and added that as always, the parliament has not been taken on board on any policy, either now or earlier. “What exactly is their plan?” she asked.
She said if the government has already agreed with the IMF to increase the petroleum levy from Rs 510 billion in 2021 to Rs 607 billion in 2022 and increase the gas tariff by an additional Rs 100 billion, how they plan controlling inflation in the country. “Are they going to compensate people for all the jobs lost and the families destroyed,” she asked.
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The PPP chairman also underscored the prices of fertilisers, seeds, pesticides, agricultural machinery and electricity that have gone up by 150 per cent
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has warned that the country is moving towards another flour crisis as there are only less than 20 days of wheat stock left available in the country.
In a statement issued by the PPP Media Office on Wednesday, Bilawal slammed the federal government for fixing the wheat purchase price at INR1,800 per 40 kg, alleging that the government was making a false claim that it had increased the subsidy price up to 400 per cent, Dawn reported.
Daily Times
April 29, 2021
Addressing the government’s plan to split PIA into two firms, PPP Parliamentary Leader in the Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman said, “Tabahi Sarkar has literally crashed PIA by compromising several Pakistani pilots with clean licenses, got the airline grounded in EU capitals after “Licensegate”, sold PIA assets abroad via crony shell firms and are now cannibalising “old PIA” to create new business ventures. This is a new low”.
“About 2,000 PIA employees have been forced to take voluntary redundancy and now the plan is to lay off half of its 14,000 employees. Tabahi Sarkar is Awam dushman in unprecedented ways as all they do is sack people in covid times instead of creating jobs. If this is their revival plan for PIA then we shudder to think what they will be doing next,” she added.