'Ishaq Dar attempting to invent new economics': PTI slams PML-N's 'economic misrule'
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday slammed the PML-N's "four years of economic misrule" at a press conference in Islamabad, saying that Pakistan's economy has "never been worse" than it is today.
Flanked by MNA Asad Umar, Khan accused Finance Minister Ishaq Dar of being "Pakistan's economic hitman", and claimed that the country's economic performance during the PML-N era had been worse as compared to the eras of former presidents Pervez Musharraf and Asif Zardari.
The PTI leaders said that although the government claims the economy is progressing, investment is falling whereas debt is on the rise. They pointed out various economic indicators during a slideshow which they said was based on the government's own data.
Umar accused Dar of attempting to "invent new economics".
"Investments have always fallen whenever Nawaz Sharif has come into power... and this time they are even lower than Zardari's era despite China-Pakistan Economic Corridor investments," Umar claimed.