Responding to the news about PM Imran Khan’s meeting with IMF chief Christiane Lagrade and a possible finalisation of conditions for a bailout package, Marriyum said that it was mere theatre. “The government has already implemented the conditions of IMF, which amount to financial lynching of the people of Pakistan,” she said. Criticising the government over its denial of an IMF package to shore up the economy, the former information minister said the PTI and its leaders had developed the habit of lying about every action, even those that were legitimate. Marriyum also brought to attention the decline in the value of the rupee, and said the government must inform the people if further devaluation is planned. “The people of Pakistan should brace themselves for another tsunami of inflation as a result of this trip,” she warned.

Source: The Express Tribune February 10, 2019 16:18 UTC