Alleged audio leak: Miftah says Jhagra, others should be ashamed
Pakistan
Finance Minister said that PTI is adamant to destroy everything just for the sake of politics
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Monday said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Jhagra and other PTI leaders should be ashamed over alleged audio leak.
Addressing a press conference, Finance Minister said that PTI is adamant to destroy everything just for the sake of politics and asked if they want to change name of the country to Bani Gala.
PML-N leader further said that PTI broke agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) but PML-N led coalition government saved the country from bankruptcy.
Earlier, former finance minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shaukat Tarin allegedly asked Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Ministers to backtrack from IMF commitments in order to pressurize federal government.
According to details, an audio clip has surfaced in which former finance minister was allegedly giving directions to provincial finance minister to derail International Monetary Fund deal.
In alleged audio, Shaukat Tarin said that they need to backtrack from Rs750 billion commitments and tell the lender that the commitment Punjab made was pre-floods and now the province "cannot honor it".
The PTI leader told the finance minister to draft a letter and send it to him for vetting so it could be sent to the federal government and later on to the IMF representative in Pakistan.
At Tarin’s request, Leghari asked whether Pakistan would suffer if Punjab withdraws from the deal.
"Well, frankly isn’t the state already suffering because of the way they are treating your chairman [Khan] and everybody else? IMF will definitely ask them: where will you get the money from now?" Tarin responded.
He further said that Centre is sending PTI leadership to jail and filing terrorism case. Tarin said that this could not go on further and the party could not bear being "mistreated" and not respond. "We cannot be blackmailed.
