Shortly before PTI founding chairman Imran Khan revealed having written a letter to the IMF on Friday, asking it to make its next loan programme conditional to Pakistan conducting an audit of the February 8 general elections, party leader Senator Barrister Ali Zafar clarified that the country should continue to engage with the IMF.
Senator Zafar said that the engagement with the IMF should continue to “ensure financial discipline, good governance, and economic stability which is critical for the prosperity of the people of Pakistan”.
However, shortly after Senator Zafar’s statement, Imran told the media that he had written a letter to the IMF addressing allegations of election rigging.
Following the hearing of the £190 million case, the PTI supremo stated that the letter raises concerns about obtaining loans in such circumstances, questioning who would be responsible for repaying the international monetary body in the current circumstances.
Expressing apprehension that this loan would exacerbate poverty, the PTI founder maintained that investment needs to be attracted otherwise the loans will keep piling up. “Political stability needs to come to the country before anything else.”
Adding to it, Imran alleged that institutions were compromised to ensure PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s ‘selection’, causing harm to courts and organisations, including the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the process. Imran contended that “rigging occurred in favour of Nawaz” during the elections after unfairly subjecting him to allegations.
A day earlier, Analysts and rival political leaders criticised Imran Khan’s decision to write a letter to the IMF. A political expert, Zaigham Khan said that Imran Khan has taken a dangerous decision by deciding to write a letter to the IMF.
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