‘They will not do anything without America’s approval’; Imran Khan rebukes govt<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cInstead of taking a stand against such IMF\u2019s conditions, the government has laid down in front of the Fund,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He further said that ex-PM Imran Khan went to Pakistan\u2019s friends and IMF to rescue the country from economic woes.<\/p>\n
The former finance minister alleged that the economic team of the present regime has released the statistics of PTI government.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were told that the economy was not strengthening, now they are acknowledging,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He noted that PTI\u2019s policies in the past two years enabled higher growth for two consecutive years and in the current year, the country posted 4.4 percent growth in the agriculture sector and 7 percent in the industrial sector.<\/p>\n
In response to a question regarding purchase of oil from Russia, Shaukat Tarin said that If India and China can procure oil from Russia then why not Pakistan?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe imported rulers are afraid of the US that\u2019s why they are not making deals with Russia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: Shaukat Tarin has asserted that agreement with IMF is not in public interest, media reported on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the former FM said that the PTI-led government had refused to accept IMF\u2019s conditions of raising prices of electricity and petroleum products. \u201cInstead, our plan was to cover the capital by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[4190,103,138,273],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-petroleum-products","tag-imran-khan","tag-pakistan","tag-pti-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}