PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party has described issuance of presidential ordinances an attack on the parliament.

In a statement issued here on Friday, ANP central vice-president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said such ordinances showed that the government was unable to make legislation through parliament.

“If the government has majority in the parliament then why it is promulgating ordinances through backdoor,” he said and recalled that the PTI had been claiming that it would break the begging bowl once it came to power, but the party had “surrendered” the country to the IMF after forming the government.

Mr Hoti said the government was dropping the price hike bomb on people every other day only to “appease the IMF”.

Referring to a new presidential ordinance, he said it had given the government free hand to increase power tariff. He added massive increase in power tariff would add to miseries of the poverty-hit people.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2021