Coalition govt continues political consultations amid economic catastrophe

An important meeting of the government coalition parties was held yesterday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a picture of the meeting is going viral on social media in which the premier was clapping his hands while Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Asif Ali Zardari are joking.

The photo went viral on the day when the US dollar was trading at Rs224 to Rs225 and the stock market had lost almost a thousand points.

The picture that went viral on social media is a slap on the face of the poor people, a meeting whose agenda was the country’s economic situation and political situation, the top leadership of the country was sitting in this meeting and was busy laughing. Moreover, this is the picture of the day when the rupee bloodbath took place in the interbank and open market.

Commenting on the picture that went viral on social media, Pakistan’s senior journalist and anchorperson Kamran Khan has written that “Today I understood that this is all a well-thought-out scheme. It is not a joke. Dollar 125 has become expensive by 50 rupees a day. The hearths of Pakistan’s economy have been shaken.”

آج سمجھ میں آگیا یہ سب کچھ ایک سوچی سمجھی اسکیم ہے کوئی مذاق نہیں ہے ڈالر 125 روز میں 50 رپے مہنگا ہوگیا پاکستان کی معشیت کی چولیں ہل گئیں وزیر اعظم کے کان پر جوں بھی نہ رینگے تین دن سے اسلام آباد چھوڑ کر لاہور ماڈل ٹاون میں ن لیگ شکست کے اثرات و وجوہات کا جائزہ لیتے رہیں pic.twitter.com/GMnoxc3HKY

— Kamran Khan (@AajKamranKhan) July 19, 2022

He has further written that “No matter what the Prime Minister does, he left Islamabad for three days and continued to examine the effects and reasons of the PML-N’s defeat in Lahore Model Town.”

Khawar Ghumman, a senior journalist and analyst associated with ARY, wrote, “This picture will always be a part of Pakistani history. The historian will write that this picture was taken when the value of the dollar reached 225 to the Pakistani rupee.”

Khawar Ghumman goes on to write that “Billions of rupees sank in the stock exchange that day and the world was warning Pakistan that the country was going bankrupt.”

یہ تصویر ہمیشہ پاکستانی تاریخ کا حصہ رہے گی۔ مورخ لکھے گا یہ تصویر اس وقت لی گی جب پاکستانی روپیہ دو سو پچیس تک پہنچ گیا اور سٹاک ایکسینج میں اربو ڈوب گئے اور پاکستان کو دنیا وارن کر رہی تھی کہ ملک دیوالیہ ہونے جارہا ہے۔ pic.twitter.com/kxJNAzGtDi

— Khawar Ghumman (@Ghummans) July 19, 2022

Well-known anchor person and senior journalist Mansoor Ali Khan shared the photo of the meeting on the social networking website Twitter and wrote that “The dollar reached 224 rupees on the same day. Do you think that these people are worried?”

The same day when $ reached 224. Do they look worried? pic.twitter.com/t2RDlsl9hu

— Mansoor Ali Khan (@_Mansoor_Ali) July 19, 2022

Commenting on the viral picture of the meeting of the government coalition parties and PDM, neutral analysts say that the country is close to bankruptcy, the global rating agency has changed the outlook of the economy from positive to negative, but it is viral on social media. The picture is giving a clear impression that the top leadership of the country is not facing any problems.

They say that it is the height of indifference that the country’s economy has taken its last breath while the Prime Minister has left Islamabad and gone to Lahore for four days to somehow save his son’s government. These people themselves give oil and matches to Imran Khan to go and sprinkle them on the people. Government will survive by governing.

Analysts further say that those who are considering them as the saviours should understand that these people are bent on bankrupting Pakistan because as the dollar goes up, the value of their assets will also go up. It seems that these people came with the same mission to loot and run away from Pakistan, if the people still do not play the same role as the Sri Lankan people, no one will be able to save Pakistan from bankruptcy.