Bilawal Bhutto should first get $9 billion cleared for flood victims, budget comes later
It should be remembered that during last year in international conference held in Geneva, aid of more than 9 billion dollars was announced by international community and institutions to recover from the disastrous floods in Pakistan
PML-N’s ally in National Assembly, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has warned the Prime Minister that if no money is kept in the budget for the flood victims, then the budget will not be passed. will give Analysts say that Bilawal Bhutto should ask for an account of the budget later, first he should account for the 9 billion dollars that were collected from the international community for the flood victims of Sindh and Balochistan last year because at that time the minister The foreign minister was giving a lot of credit to his and Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s efforts and was not bursting with happiness.
Addressing a public meeting in Swat, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Pakistan People’s Party had sent a high-level committee to the Prime Minister, the role of the People’s Party in this budget is very small, as the federal government had promised. That the money set aside for the flood victims should be spent, neither in the federal budget nor in Sindh nor any other province has money in the budget.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the Prime Minister said that something else has come into the budget, the country cannot afford it, the Prime Minister should take account of those people in his team who are obstacles in fulfilling the promises.
He said that there is no doubt about the intention of the Prime Minister, he saw the devastation of the flood himself, fulfilled the promises made to the flood victims, we take care of the people while other parties take care of certain people.
While warning the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto said that if money is not received for the rehabilitation of the flood victims, the People’s Party will not allow the budget to be approved.
Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal’s response
Responding to Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s warning, Federal Minister for Planning and Planning Ahsan Iqbal has said that all the allied parties were included during the preparation of the budget, and the government tries to include the allies in all decisions.
Ahsan Iqbal said that in the coalition government, all decisions are made by consensus, which is everyone’s responsibility to protect.
The Federal Planning and Planning Minister further said that by standing up and saying such things in the meetings, suspicions are created and political uncertainty is created.
He said that Bilawal Bhutto should speak in the cabinet, the prime minister has always addressed his grievances.
Negotiations
However, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called an important meeting today to clear the concerns regarding the budget of the ally Pakistan People’s Party. The meeting will be held today at 5 pm at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat.
PML-N ministers Ishaq Dar, Ahsan Iqbal and Ayaz Sadiq are likely to be represented by the government while Syed Khurshid Shah, Naveed Qamar, Sherry Rehman and Shazia Murri are likely to be represented by the PPP. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah is also expected to attend the meeting.
Connected to past
It should be remembered that during the international conference held in Geneva, the aid of more than 9 billion dollars was announced by the international community and institutions to recover from the disastrous floods in Pakistan last year, which is one of Pakistan’s requests. A billion dollars was more.
This aid was announced by the international community during the ‘International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan’ held in Geneva, which was jointly hosted by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
