Politicians, army and courts should sit together and solve the problem, if they don't follow the country's constitution, then change it all together, the former prime minister said.
Wednesday June 19, 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point Newspaper Latest. June 19, 2024) Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says that if the country is given 3 fair and free elections, the whole system will be fine, politicians, army and courts should sit together and solve the problem. Do it, if they don't follow the constitution of the country then change it all together, army's job is not to do business, they should stay away from it because it creates more problems.
Talking to the news today, the former prime minister said that the defense budget has increased, the defense budget was 1700 billion and now after 6 years, the defense budget has become 2100 billion. We are facing a big threat of terrorism. You need security forces, you have to strengthen your defense and you have to spend and it has to be discussed in front of people.
If we strengthen the economy, we will be able to own guns and run the government.
Your economy has not grown. The dollar is there and you have to collect more than 4 trillion rupees, if you tax the government more, then inflation will happen because you have taken money out of people's pockets, they should have done tax reforms. You put more burden on who is paying the tax. Overburdening whoever is doing the taxing doesn't make money.
Now who is earning 3 lakh rupees you will deduct tax of more than 1 lakh rupees from his pocket then what is the benefit? You have to reduce the tax slab and bring everyone in the tax net. You have a system called ID Card and the whole of Pakistan is connected to it. We made 3 slabs in 2010 and there was no tax on Rs 1 lakh per month. We have 3 slabs, 5, 10, 15 percent. Last slab was 15.
People don't pay 30 to 35 percent tax, but they will pay 15 percent tax. You have made a non-filer. Taxation will have an impact on poor people. The bottom line is that if you have expenses, you have a salary. The government participates in your salary. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi further said during the conversation that I criticize myself. I say we are all failures, if we didn't fail, the country wouldn't be here. We have learned from our mistakes how to solve things.
We are trying to keep this thought to improve things. I have spent 35 years with PMLN. I came into politics at the age of 29, 30. He is closely related to Muslim League-N. But there is a time in politics when you have opposition within the party. After which you part ways on a fundamental point. The principle of PML-N was to respect the vote of the constitution and its narrative.
When that changed, it was difficult for me to continue. I was in favor of a vote of no confidence because it was a democratic process, he said. 21 MNAs of PTI were in touch with me that we cannot go with PTI and tell how you will accommodate us. And Imran Khan had lost his majority. Bajoda Sahib completed the number. Which later Bajwa also admitted.
I had said that if there is no confidence then do not form the government and hold elections because the government did not accept the mandate. When the party decided to come to power, there was no choice. These decisions were closed-room decisions. 16 months is a long time. If you are in power, why don't you make decisions in power?
