PML-N styleEnd-of-term is when the incumbent typically waxes eloquent about gains made in virtually every area of government responsibility. Inflation, for example, did stay low during this electoral cycle but PML-N should be the last party to take credit for it. Now, with the government completing its term, oil is crossing $80/barrel and headed for the psychological hundred-dollar barrier. And how could PM Abbasi, and then Finance Minister Ismail, even talk about the circular debt with a straight face? For one thing it is, at this point, much higher than the Rs480b which they say they inherited from PPP.

Source: Pakistan Today May 30, 2018 15:11 UTC