Lambasting the Imran Khan-led government for not abiding by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday explained why the coalition government had to raise oil prices despite a significant reduction in world prices.
Addressing a seminar in Islamabad on Thursday, the premier cited how a bureaucrat sitting inside the Prime Minister House during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman’s tenure advised Imran to raise oil prices before his government was ousted.
“He (Imran) does not have any brains (a blessing from God) and that is why he approved the reduction in oil prices,” the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president said.
The prime minister said he couldn’t fathom how Imran instructed the former finance minister to convince the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to declare that a provincial surplus will not be possible in a bid to sabotage the IMF program.