RAWALPINDI:Chief of Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rashid commenting on the prevailing economic crisis on Sunday said the poor had been pushed into a quagmire as ordinary man was helpless with only the elite living a life according to their terms and conditions.
Rashid, in a message posted on X which was formerly known as Twitter, said taxes should have been imposed on the elite but instead the poor were chosen for the purpose. Middle class had been completely crushed and didn’t know how to survive, he remarked.
He said poverty and hunger did not ask to which political party they belonged before hitting a family. How the masses would ensure income to meet the food needs, pay rent and provide education to their children, the AML head asked.
The former interior minister also questioned how an industrial and agri revolution would materialise amid the skyrocketing prices of electricity and petrol, adding that the gas tariff was also to be increased by September-end.
According to Rashid, some decisions are made on earth with others in “heavens” and some decisions from “heavens” could also come into effect before elections – without elaborating the use of heavens.
He termed survival as the biggest problem currently faced by the common men, saying that the timing of polls was of secondary importance.
