Daily Times

Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led government is under an illusion that by arresting critics it would be successful in deviating people’s attention from the anti-people budget.

“As rigged PTIMF budget starts to suck the life out of Pakistan’s economy expect the regimes fascist tactics to increase.  When citizens of Rome were starving Caesar would distract with Gladiators. Imran thinks you won’t notice his economic murder if he arrests all his critics.”

Since the federal budget was passed last month after a long deliberation in the National Assembly, the opposition parties continued accusing the government of having the budget for the new fiscal year passed through manipulation.

Bilawal earlier maintained the budget was passed through “rigging”.

However, Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh had said handling current account deficit, strict austerity measures, helping downtrodden, facilitating industry, and mobilizing revenues were the five fundamentals of the budget.