PTI trying to hoodwink masses through false narrative of bodies: Tarar

Abdullah Jan

Islamabad: Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage and Culture Attaullah Tarar said on Tuesday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was trying to hoodwink the people through fake narrative and lies.

Lambasting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, in a media talk, he said that the party was creating a false narrative of firing on the protesters.

He once again challenged the PTI to present a single piece of evidence showing a law enforcement agencies personnel firing bullets directly on the protesters.

“There is not a single video in which law enforcement agencies person can be seen directly firing upon protesters. They have all kinds of videos but there is no video evidence ( of direct firing) as this never took place”, he maintained.

The minister said that a video of a man running away in which he was saying that he hit by a gunshot, went viral.

Attaullah Tarar said the same person in another video was claiming that he had got an injury on his hand.

However when in the video, he opened the bandage on his hand no bullet mark was visible on his hand.

Tarar stated that the PTI was defaming the state through their concocted stories based on lies.

The PTI is spreading lies about bodies and different leaders were giving different figures of fatalities ranging from a dozen to 4000. A senior leader of the PTI Lateef Khosa claimed that over 150 bodies were lying at his residence.

He said even the PTI Chairman, Barrister Gohar remarked that there were only 12 bodies and all other claims were bogus.Pakistan’s cuisine

He said there was no dead, if the PTI had any dead bodies they should present in front of the media.

Taking a dig on the PTI, he said these bodies were found on Tik Tok, Facebook, X, WhatsApp and other social media platforms, but in reality, there were no dead bodies.

He said the PTI was trying to hoodwink the nation through its lies and misleading statements.

He said that it was unfortunate that such people form political parties who had no sense.

He also pointed out four Rangers personnel and a police officer were martyred, but no one from the PTI expressed sympathy with the bereaved families.

The PTI miscreants target security forces and police personnel but later claim of make hue and cry of killing of their party workers.

The minister said that on social media, it was claimed that Jam Amanullah, a boy from Khanpur was killed in law enforcement agencies firing. Now his father Jam Tahir has issued a video in which he clarified that his son was alive and sitting beside him in his home.

He also made it clear that neither United States nor United Kingdom could allow armed rioters to protest outside White House and 10 Downing Street.

About the economic situation, the minister said that due to the prudent policies of the government, inflation has fallen to a 70-month low which was a manifestation that Pakistan’s economy was growing.

He said that foreign exchange reserves have exceeded $ 11 billion mark and Consumer Price Index was going down every month.Pakistan’s cuisine

He said that the stock market had broken several records and crossed the 100,000 points mark whereas the interest rate had been reduced to 15 percent and the KIBOR rate to 13 percent.

He said following reduction in interest rates, investment in the country was increasing.

“Due to the day and night hard work and efforts of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, the inflation had fallen to record low”, he added.

He recalled that this achievement was made from a point of default when Shehbaz Sharif became Prime Minister for the first time.

Tarar said that Managing Director of International Monetary Fund had rightly pointed out that had Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif not taken this matter seriously, it would not have been possible for Pakistan to avoid default.

He also recalled that when the country was on the verge of default, a political party was writing to the IMF not to grant any assistance to Pakistan, so that it was forced to default.

Today, he said inflation had fall2n to 4.8 percent, interest rate down to 15 percent, foreign remittances had reached $ 8.8 billion mark, foreign exchange reserves had reached $ 11 billion.

He expressed the hope that there will be further improvement in economic development of the country in coming times.

Pakistan, KSA agree for qualitative change in bilateral trade, investment ties

Riyadh: Pakistan and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have agreed that it was now necessary for the two countries to bring about a qualitative change in their economic, trade and investment relationship.

The bilateral relationship was discussed as Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif had a “warm and cordial” meeting with Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud on the sidelines of the One Water Summit held here.

The Crown Prince spoke of his great pleasure at meeting the Prime Minister Shehbaz for the fifth time over past six months. He said that this was the evidence of the genuine love and affection that connect the peoples of the two countries.

The Crown Prince stressed that it was important to ensure that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enhance meaningful cooperation that will bring about economic growth and prosperity in Pakistan.

Both leaders expressed satisfaction at the pace of progress of the implementation of the MOUs and agreements signed between the two countries regarding investment in Pakistan.

The Prime Minister thanked the Crown Prince for his most genuine affection for the people of Pakistan.

He reiterated his invitation to the Crown Prince to visit Pakistan at his earliest convenience. The Crown Prince responded that he was looking forward to his visit to Pakistan.

Later in a post on his X time-line, the prime minister referring to his meeting with the Crown Prince, thanked him for his personal interest and support in building closer Saudi Arabia-Pakistan ties for the benefit of the two nations.

“Had the pleasure and honor of meeting my brother HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the One Water Summit in Riyadh. We reaffirmed our strong brotherly ties and discussed ways to further enhance our cooperation in trade and investment. Frequent high level exchanges are paving the way for mutually beneficial economic cooperation between our two countries,” he added.