KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has termed the recently-promulgated State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) ordinance as dangerous for the people of the country, saying that step is illegal and tantamount to an attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty. In a statement on Saturday, Bilawal Bhutto maintained that the PPP also wants SBP to be independent and to make decisions that are in the interest of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan independently. “However, the ordinance doesn’t make the SBP independent, it makes it independent from Pakistan’s law, it makes it independent from the parliamentary and judicial oversight,” he added. Bilawal also lashed out at the government over rising inflation in the country. The PPP chairman said that the government made special assistant “a scapegoat” in the petrol fiasco while the whole cabinet took the decisions.

Source: Pakistan Today March 27, 2021 15:33 UTC