RAWALPINDI:Awami Muslim League leader and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that the 16-month rule of the 13 “incompetent” parties is the cause of ruination of Pakistan’s economy.

Taking to social media website X, formerly Twitter, the ex-minister wrote on Wednesday that inflation has gone sky-high. Electricity bills have doubled. Soon, the IMF will withdraw support.

Rashid wondered that the Election Commission released the schedule of demarcation of constituencies first and called the political parties later for consultation.

The former minister said masses are not a political party, they are a symbol of stability and security of the country.

To Rashid, the problem is more economic than political. “Inflation and electricity have become a matter of survival. Neither the kitchen is running nor the factory nor the shop [due to inflation],” he concluded.