Therefore, the industry cannot generate employment or produce goods for exports. Job creation in a country where the industry is in doldrums, is impossible.įor long the industry remains gas and power starved. Before the 2018 elections Imran has promised to create 10 million jobs.īut since then, 5 million people have been rendered jobless. In a country of 220 million souls, unemployment rate is 16 percent. On October 20, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) held a massive rally in Rawalpindi, which houses the military General Headquarter (GHQ), and shouted the Imran government was a thief of electricity and gas. Her guess is that he may not survive as Prime Minister beyond 2021.
PMLK-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz taunts that Imran is surrounded by petrol mafia. The current upsurge in agitations has been kicked off by Imran’s government decision to collect over 50 percent levy on petroleum products and to raise gas prices by 30 to 40%. Jamaat-i-Islami Chief Sirajul Haq called Prime Minister Imran Khan’s team “incapable rulers” during whose rule prices of basic food commodities have gone up by 3 to 4 times. Shahbaz, who is President of the Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N), said those belonging to the working class could no longer afford to run their kitchens for a meal a day. Media reports say parents are pulling out their children from schools because they can no longer more afford their fees. As anti-uncontrolled inflation agitations hit the streets all over Pakistan, opposition leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif told the House on September 21 that people were forced “to beg for alms just to feed their families once a day.”
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