QUETTA, July 21: A Baloch nationalist leader and former secretary general of the Jamhori Watan Party, Abdul Rauf Khan Sasoli has said that the PML-N government is doing nothing to solve the problems being faced by people. Talking to reporters on Sunday, he claimed that the popularity graph of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had dropped within the one-and-a-half months since he assumed office and his government’s wrong economic policies had led to a big increase in prices of essential items, making people’s life miserable.

Mr Sasoli said people had voted the PML-N to power in the hope that its government would provide them relief from loadshedding, terrorism, targeted killings, sectarian violence and robberies, but it had failed to curb them.

He said Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had presented an ‘anti-people’ budget which had further multiplied people’s problems. He said if the Sharif government continued with the same policies and committed mistakes like it did in the past, it would be difficult for it to remain in power more than two years.