"Hukumat Reforms kar Sakti thi laikn inko Apna Aik Paisa Nahi Chorna" Miftah Ismail Big Revelations

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#pmshehbazsharif #pmlngovt #miftahismail #ipps #pakistaneconomiccrisis   "Hukumat Reforms kar Sakti thi laikn inko Apna Aik Paisa Nahi Chorna" Miftah Ismail Big Revelations

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00:00On one hand there is an issue of IPPs, on the other hand there is an issue of over-billing.

00:05The Jamaat-e-Islami is sitting in Islamabad, in Karachi today.

00:08You people have also protested.

00:11Mr. Mufti, the common man wants to know,

00:13with these protests, with these questions, with this pressure that is being put on the government,

00:19can there be any change? Can there be any change? Can there be any relief?

00:25Look, what we are saying is absolutely reasonable and it should be done by the government.

00:31And I think if the government understands it, it will do it.

00:35We are not doing anything like the Jamaat-e-Islami is saying,

00:38to terminate the IPPs and stop giving them money.

00:41If you stop giving money to IPPs, they will stop giving you electricity.

00:45Pakistan's sovereignty will be defaulted.

00:47We are not saying this.

00:48We are saying that for the next four months,

00:51the excess taxes that you are taking,

00:5318% sales tax, 7.5% advance income tax,

00:57apart from this, you are taking one more tax,

01:00you are taking other taxes,

01:02if you stop taking those taxes,

01:04then the bill will have a 24-25% reduction.

01:07And you will not have a loss of more than 10 billion rupees per month.

01:13If you do this for four months, you will have a loss of 40 billion rupees.

01:17What is the big deal?

01:18If the government can't do this,

01:20if the government can't bear the pain of the people,

01:22then that's just wrong.

01:24And no IMF will object to this.

01:26You are reducing your taxes on one side,

01:28and on the other side, you are reducing your expenses.

01:29There is no problem.

01:30But there is a government, Mr. Amitabh,

01:32which was already in a very bad situation.

01:35The economy was a big challenge.

01:37Political instability was a big challenge.

01:39Why is it taking such steps?

01:41Does it make sense to you,

01:43that a government which is already under pressure,

01:46which is already asking questions on Form 45-47,

01:48of a big country,

01:50is taking such steps,

01:52because of which inflation has increased,

01:54when according to you, there are solutions?

01:56See, the government has increased its expenses by 24%,

02:00current expenditures,

02:02after debt service payment.

02:05So, it doesn't increase it by 24%,

02:07if it had increased it by 22%,

02:08or increased it by 20%,

02:09then it would have got a room there.

02:11Last year, you spent Rs. 750 billion on Ph.D.P.

02:17First, you said that you will spend Rs. 1,400 billion.

02:20Then you said that you will spend Rs. 1,100 billion.

02:22What is that thing,

02:24in which you have to spend Rs. 1,100 billion?

02:27If the economy is in such a difficult situation,

02:30people are so worried,

02:31then you should stop at Rs. 700 billion.

02:33You save Rs. 450 billion.

02:36You invest this Rs. 450 billion towards electricity.

02:39It can be less in public taxes.

02:41If you invest Rs. 450 billion in electricity,

02:44then you can pay this towards capacity cost.

02:47But the government, I think, doesn't have two things.

02:50One, they don't realise how difficult it is for the middle class.

02:53But the second thing is that

02:55they have not understood the gravity of the situation.

02:58They are working in the same way,

03:00that leave this issue for next year.

03:02They haven't done any reform.

03:03They have so much support,

03:05from the same page,

03:06support from the SIFC.

03:08They could have done something,

03:09but they haven't done anything.

03:11They don't want to leave any money.

03:12They don't want to reduce MNS funds.

03:13They don't want to reduce MPS funds.

03:15They don't want to reduce the money they have to give to the provinces.

03:19They want to do show projects.

03:21They want to increase the current expenditures.

03:23The only person who is suffering

03:26is the middle class, salaried individual.

03:28From your show projects,

03:29I remembered the glass train,

03:31which you referred to,

03:32about UK electricity,

03:33when you were protesting.

03:36But if you look at the political scenario,

03:39according to Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf,

03:42in December, he will come back to power,

03:45and Imran Khan will become the Prime Minister.

03:49Due to the mistakes of the government,

03:52or due to lack of foresight,

03:54do you think that this is possible?

03:57Are there any possibilities?

03:59But December is very far away.

04:01It's true.

04:02And for the past 2-3 days,

04:05Khan has been telling the Army Chief,

04:08he made his sister tell him,

04:10which is obviously a very authentic thing,

04:12that the army should be neutral.

04:15First, you know that the neutrals

04:18have been likened to animals.

04:21His social media is saying

04:24that he won't even leave his grave.

04:27And so on and so forth.

04:28There are many strange things.

04:30There is an entire campaign against the army.

04:32Not just the chief,

04:33but against the entire army.

04:35Khan's campaign is on social media.

04:37Obviously, everyone knows that

04:39if Khan gets a hint,

04:40that thing will be over.

04:42So now Khan has taken a positive step.

04:45I would say this.

04:46He is coming towards normalization.

04:48He is coming towards normalization of politics.

04:51That his opponent is not a country's enemy,

04:54nor is he your enemy.

04:55He is an opponent.

04:56Now, if he talks like this,

04:58then he should talk.

04:59But I don't think that

05:00if he is committing,

05:04and what he admitted,

05:07for example,

05:08that on 9th May,

05:09we called for peaceful protest,

05:11then we should move away from it,

05:12that this was a false crack operation.

05:14First, we should move away from it.

05:16So, these things are better.

05:19I think it is better

05:20that if there is some hesitation

05:22in Khan's stance,

05:24then the government should also show hesitation,

05:26and the forces should also show hesitation.

05:28I don't think he is asking for hesitation from the government,

05:30Mr. Ismail.

05:31The government should show it as much as it wants.

05:33But even if the government shows hesitation,

05:35will Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

05:37still be ready to talk to the government?

05:39Because,

05:40one step,

05:41we have moved away from here,

05:42so on the other hand,

05:43we don't want to talk to PMLN,

05:44People's Party,

05:45or MQM.

05:46We are moving away from there.

05:47What do you see?

05:48Look,

05:49the truth is that

05:51it is true that

05:53this government does not have the mandate

05:55that Muslim League had in 2013.

05:57There is no debate on this.

05:59But,

06:00the thing is that

06:01the government and the army

06:02are on the same page.

06:03So, if you talk to the government,

06:04they will say,

06:05what do you expect,

06:06that the Chief of Army Staff

06:07will come to Adiyala

06:08and talk to you?

06:09You should not say such things.

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