Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said that it is our national, religious and humanitarian duty to help the flood victims, children...
Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said that it is our national, religious and humanitarian duty to help the flood victims, children, sons, daughters, my sisters, send a message to 9999 and donate 10 rupees.
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said in a press conference in Islamabad that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif went to Sukkur today and tomorrow he will visit Hyderabad. 25 thousand rupees should be found immediately, for which there is no helper at this time.
He further said that there has been a flood in the poorest areas of Pakistan, those who have nothing, those people should buy rations, tents or mosquito nets, this money will reach 11.5 million families in the next week. , have started paying money in Balochistan and Sindh.
He said that Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was telling that when his plane was landing in Sukkur, it seemed that only the Indus River was below, everywhere there was water.
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"There is no precedent in the history of the rain that fell in different districts of Sindh."
The Finance Minister said that the situation was very bad in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, rescue teams were also stuck there, today it has rained in Swat and Kalam and the situation is bad there too, in the last 10 days different districts of Sindh The amount of rain that has fallen is unprecedented in history.
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said that all Pakistanis should help the flood victims above all other purposes. He has requested you to donate to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. They give charity in the same way, donate in the same way, deliver equipment to people.
'Appealing to the world to give you money'
He said that we are appealing to the world to give money, the World Bank has given 370 million dollars and the Asian Development Bank has given 2.5 million dollars. Chinese companies in Pakistan have given 15 million rupees to the Prime Minister. If we are taking money, then we all have a duty to give money in it.
"I am sorry that Taimur Jhagra has written to me in Syria on Friday"
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said, "I am sorry that Taimur Jhagra wrote to me in Syria on Friday that if you do not solve our 6-7 long-standing problems, we will give you a surplus as a precondition of the IMF program." We will not be able to give that, yesterday Fawad Chaudhry said that Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will not cooperate with the federal government, so the deal with the IMF will be broken.
He said that he has also asked the Finance Division of Punjab to write this letter, the Minister and Secretary of Punjab may have refused, but the Finance Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has written a letter to me, after this letter, my Taimur dispute. He has told me that he has not sent this letter to the IMF, I believe his word, but this letter has spread all over Pakistan, it has been published in every newspaper. It is said that the IMF has also got involved.
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He said that there are talks with the IMF on Monday and you wrote this letter at 4 pm on Friday while the leader of your party said on TV on Thursday that Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will not cooperate, when other leaders called They are saying that write this letter, you don't know the result, we will take care of it too, but it is very surprising that today Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, South Punjab are submerged in water.
"If Imran Khan's government will not come, then destroy Pakistan"
He said that Miftah Ismail must have taken tough decisions, but this nation has sacrificed, you have bought expensive petrol, you have paid expensive electricity bills, when we made this sacrifice and today we are the members of the IMF Board. You are standing in front of Monday, so today you are writing a letter, you could not wait ten days, that means if Imran Khan's government will not come, then destroy Pakistan, let those who are dying in flood die so that the dollar will be more. It will become expensive, foreign exchange will decrease further, it will be difficult to get medicine in Pakistan, it will be impossible to buy oil in Pakistan.
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said that the woman had said in the rally that if Imran Khan is not there, we will close and burn Pakistan, you will not burn my country, no one will burn it, what kind of politics is this, for this politics. We have become politicians to put Pakistan at stake, Pakistan's economy at stake.
Between 70 to 80 lakh cattle have died in the floods.
He said that the tragedy of the flood in which 70 to 80 lakh livestock worth 40 to 50 billion rupees have died, those who have nothing, their everything has gone, after the flood, it is not known that Sindh will return next year. How much wheat will be planted, because if there is no water drainage, then the land will not be dry. And if they don't provide electricity, they won't be able to draw water.
Miftah Ismail said that a historic flood has occurred in Pakistan, such a flood has not occurred in 100 years, on this day you are playing politics, and they are also playing politics at the last time of negotiations with the IMF, we are not stopping politics today. If you can, then when can you stop it, when will this time come in the fate of this nation to leave politics today and bring forward the interest of Pakistanis.
They have brought politics to the point that they are sinking Pakistan for the sake of power.
He said that if we can't do this even today, then this should happen to Pakistan, then it should happen, Pakistan is bankrupt, Miftah Ismail, Maryam Aurangzeb, Bilal Kayani alone is not Pakistan, it is Pakistan for all of us. We have brought politics to the point that today we are sinking Pakistan for the sake of power, when our children are dying, it is better that a person do something else than this kind of politics.
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"I will meet Timur Jhagra on Monday"
The finance minister said that I have asked PTI leader Taimur Jhagra to come on Monday and sit and talk. He says that the tribal areas were merged in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Usman Buzdar government did not give, nor did the governments of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, only the federal government gave money.
He said that these people were keeping 21 billion rupees extra till last year, this year I have deducted all of them, I did not give a penny to the planning division in the fourth quarter, this has happened for the first time in Pakistan, Shahbaz. Sharif told me, I said that there is no money, he stopped the money, we said that you have kept 21 billion rupees, he said that we need it.
The finance minister said that we told him to tell us in writing why you need the money, tell us how many posts you have given, how much has been spent on salaries, how many other expenses have been incurred, the calculation of it. It hasn't come yet.
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Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said that the debt recovery program with the IMF will be approved on Monday, we have to do the flood work at that time.
He said that it is our duty to provide help to those who are currently suffering due to the flood, children, sons, daughters, my sisters, send messages to 9999, for every message, 10 rupees will go to flood relief. People can donate Rs 10 by texting 9999, it is our national, religious and humanitarian duty to help the flood victims.
In response to a question, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said that at this time the dialogue should not be on the economy, but on the flood, the only thing that should be discussed at this time is how to save the people who are drowning in water. If you are talking about anything else, you are wasting time.
In response to the journalist's question, he said that his deliberate attempt was to derail the program, to destroy the Pakistani rupee, thinking that Shehbaz Sharif and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) would be defamed. There is a red line for Khan, a line he does not cross.
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