Miftah Abbasi calls for an increase in the minimum wage to Rs35,000, claiming that the government and the opposition are unable to handle the country’s concerns.
PESHAWAR: Miftah Ismail, a former finance minister, stated on Saturday that in order to satisfy the IMF’s requirements, the government will need to increase the minimum wage from Rs25,000 to Rs35,000.
He spoke via video link at a two-day PPP seminar called “Re-imagining Pakistan,” which was hosted at Peshawar’s Nishtar Hall. He mentioned that 86% of the country’s children were malnourished.
Other politicians who attended the event included Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a senior member of the PML-N, Mohsin Dawar, the leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), Lashkari Raisani, a former senator from the PPP, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, and Nawabzada Khawaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, a member of the PPP.
Miftah noticed that those in the nation who lacked resources were left behind more than the others.
He expressed his concern about Pakistan’s declining foreign exchange reserves and said his economic team had done all possible to resuscitate the economy and reduce the risk of default, but sadly the nation was on the verge of insolvency.
Speaking at the seminar, the former premier Abbasi expressed the opinion that the current state of enmity in Pakistan prevented the government and opposition from working together to solve the problems the nation was facing.
The top PML-N leader added during his speech, “It is sad that the situation has reached this stage.
Politicians need to put aside their own interests and work together to find solutions to these issues, he continued.
The seminar attendees talked about Khyber-declining Pakhtunkhwa’s law and order situation, its financial difficulties, the merging of the tribal districts, and the rights of the province.
Speaking to the attendees, former K-P minister Shahzada Gustasap Khan noted that party activists were unwilling to even shake hands with one another.
The National Assembly, he continued, has evolved into a local government entity.
In his remarks, Dawar pointed out that the Afghan strategy had set the stage for a fresh round of violence.
In spite of years of dealing with terrorism, practically all political groups had the same opinion on the Afghan policy, he said.
He forewarned that if Pakistan’s Afghan policy’s shortcomings were not fixed, the nation will eventually face the worst kind of terrorism.
According to former senator Khokhar, nationwide seminars are being held to give the country a new orientation because it is travelling down a dangerous path.
The event’s presenter, Hoti, made the observation that the NA speaker had removed a number of MNAs from the House just to preserve his own position and that of the prime minister, whereas Imran Khan, chairman of the PTI, had limited his grievance to regaining the position of premier.
He bemoaned the installation of a “80-year-old” caretaker setup in K-P.
