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the song's prime minister is facing renewed protests from his opponents they say him on cars involved in a foreign funding scandal and claim he came to power through the vote so they succeeded and i'm sitting here this is the inside story. of the program an alliance of opposition parties in pakistan has held its 1st rally of the year against the government demanding prime minister iran step down the pakistan democratic movement 0 pm called on supporters to gather outside the election commission and legend khan fortunately financed his campaign they say the

prime minister accepted a legal funds from abroad during the 2013 elections last week calls policy admitted raising campaign funds through foreign accounts but playing to illegalities agents the us without satisfying exactly who they were a medium lead is a con committed to a national crime and should be punished will bring in our panel of experts shortly but 1st this report from. the border of the budget on democratic airlines out right now president in front of the election commission of pakistan which are situated in the red zone normally broader the norden. but our government heard that there didn't order or go where in order to avoid your borders there. and it's broad daylight in front of the election commission of pakistan and the foreign funding case against the pakistan tehreek

e insaf that the party led by iran well if the opposition was promising to make this a real force it has been unable to muster the kind of the board that it has been able to do during their rallies across. the government on the other hand it's still very confident that they will be able to complete their. lives particularly opposition alliance known as the pakistan democratic alliance is an amalgamation of 11 political parties with 3 years of the 1st ideology. and the strategy however they are hopeful that they will be able to bring their people against the government. in order to for 3 prong collars government. inside story. where the p.p.m. alliance was formed 4 months ago marking the 1st time in history all of pakistan's

opposition parties have united in a common cause to force come from power here's why p.d.f. leaders allege the military rigged the 2018 elections that brought khan's pakistan terry insaaf assy to power they say comes government is just a puppets for the military and its agenda the prime minister is also struggling to cope with a severe economic decline unemployment and one of the worst inflation rates in asia a steep rise in food prices has led to public discontent with his policies many are also angry that khan has so far failed to initiate economic reforms that he promised his plan to widen pakistan's tax base is expected to fail and he offered no clear solution to deal with the country's foreign debt of more than $100000000000.00. of more on this i'm joined now by our guests and it's on the. information minister if imran khan's pakistan tehreek e insaf party and sure as

a political analyst commentator and in karachi ismail politician for what the pakistan muslim league he also served as finance minister for the former prime minister nawaz sharif a very warm welcome to you all i'd like to begin with this foreign funding misuse of funds allegations we've seen these protests today this is being described as the biggest scandal in pakistan's political history should be for can you give me an update has the p.d.i. turned of all of the requested documents to the election commission of pakistan where is that well well thank you very much kim for having me on your program secondly as you were talking about the election commission of pakistan and the opposition p.d.s. protest in regard to the foreign funding case well i want to put that on record that august on that he can solve is the 1st political party which started a proper organized accorded system of donations from its party members.

and you know we maintain we have a very qualified chartered accountants who maintain our books and we have in this case we have submitted to the election commission of pakistan 40000. to the east and. authenticated proofs of all the donations that have come from abroad and we have some record this since long ago but better to be d.m. the opposition coalition which is trying its best to kind of these to allies the. democratically elected government is is it is is almost on his knees because there . the protest has not affected people of pakistan because they have they know that these governments the pos government specially the pakistan people's party

pakistan muslim league known and well enough for them on there have really damaged this country and they have and does in massive corruption and latest revelation of that has been the bart broadsheet case apart from the panorama scandal that came up in 2016 ok so the 1st names i asked the following of on a 5 on family before we move on from the foreign funding scandal the issue at hand the reason that people tend not to protest i just want to bring and the mail do you trust the election commission to bring about a just at a timely response thank you so much for having me the election commission has taken importantly long to decide this matter the 1st initial case was wide by a p.t.i. founding member in 2014 so it has taken 6 long years and b.t.r. has used every demagoguery tech ticket can every delaying technique it can't submit

the documents did a very very few simple question of the us one there is this money coming from who is it that funding. it could be pakistan could be foreigners and if these bikers dani's mean what is the point to move money and i will industries big help no buy in the founder g. and secondly there is this money going is this money going just for a particular part party visa here that going for personal expenses and via this so many shell companies the p.d.s. form. due to general is do nation into why is there such a complicated verify their financial arrangements if you're just going to get some donations ok now 6 years of yes we're pretty i'm sick a single question and they're just trying to delay it. we're not protesting i'm not particularly sure did you see people still decide because they did it i mean it's

a have to be very honest with you everybody nor them but it's not an open check is p.d.i. is definitely guilty of this and therefore i think expression will end and but the government and the government here for but obviously the government is doing everything it can to delay the proceedings we haven't had a ruling or a response yet from from the election commission it has been going on for a long time do you think that imran khan is feeling the heat is this is the real 1st real challenge for this government because of their own tactics sent before because of their own strategy such as utility to this case because they've been accused of using delete tack to send it to them 6 is the election commission and it hasn't been decided yet and then it looks more dubious when the b.p.i. try to you know. wasn't many open and clear about this case. not in real trouble because. that is something which they have to answer.

ok i can see you smiling there mystifies before we move on from the foreign funds allegations is there any response he'd like to give to what you've had so far definitely were later prettify there's been only 30 months that he had in government he was 40 years where they were my. colleague mr my 1st mile is his government was there election commission as an independent cause to show a body and we have all our proofs and our record fine issued a report in front of the scrutiny committee caused by the election commission of pakistan that has i'm sorry to say that i would slightly disagree with yada yada yada analyst mr raja and that it's been basically people sparty and was august honestly believe known we have not delivered the case was in supreme court and it was then referred to the election of commissioner. stunts so we are we have done but we have to we have to do and the under no pressure to be out of not feeling the heat because we know that bug is found 30 insaaf is the 1st party which has brought

in a very systematic very transparent system of collecting funds whereas pakistan muslim league has always and people sparty they have always counted on the in the vested interest groups on the lanka birds and all the illegal people who are involved with illegally activities because then they do good a quid pro quo or that when they come into the comment then they return the favors so it is the 1st time that pakistan 30 can solve has a very transparent way of collecting funds from its party people it's just 10 dollars 12 dollars 15 dollars 100 dollars 50 dollars so we are quite relaxed and this way you know that the procession are ordered by these of 11 parties or to hardly muster were 2000 people which is i think you know it says it all ok i want to move on from that from the foreign funding issue. how do you think i mean you

obviously feel like i'm on kind of the p.t.i. is on the pressure regardless of what mystifies says how do you think that it might kahn has gotten to this point i mean it began since he's gone in the years since he's taken office how how how has he got here when he caved to power and even though we we believe in be if achieved just came and said that you know. elections were rigged and you know the man was ready selected and elected but now they're out of pocket and you see a good war. supporting me and many pakistanis are very hopeful that now that he's here he's going to be doing some of the think that you said you would be. a bit dismayed is what we call you a flip flop or is it just basically lives and we need everything to be said he's actually. on against it. this this is not a democratic getting by any chance by any by any imagination i mean this is really

a sort of a semi fascist government that did a lot of their daily lives on the media and the few speech inflation but the sun is running double digits specially food inflation economy when i was the finance minister of electric the fight was going at 5.8 percent. last it was negative 0.4 percent this year hopefully they go by 2 percent maximum the dillard been able to collect as much taxes as i did in my last year the deficits used to be made that the deficits in buckets on the deck divided 40 percent of the debt before i could stand the overall debt in just 2 years what we added in 70 years divided in 2 years ago i said of that we're going to get into the i'm going to we're going to go we're going to nail down and throw them into the economy in a moment to but before we do i'd like to come back to you mr paul to to pick up on something that mr ismail said there and talked about the military and military support of iran called how much military support does the promise to come have and

why is that so important for an international audience who doesn't understand and may not understand the role of the military in pakistan put that into context for us. thank you the pakistani military considers itself as you know of steed idea which is that military chiefs are usually publicly they say that we not yet not only the defenders of pakistani physical geography orders we are also defenders of pakistan's i do logical orders out of pakistan's 73 years history turkey 5 years the military has got that plea and the rest of the time they were ruling they were controlling from behind the scenes it's an open secret in pakistan that the military controls the foreign policy and internal security policy and knowledge of the economy the reason the national.

that from a military point of view is that pakistani politicians and political parties are not trained enough they are not mature enough they cannot be trusted to run their fears there are therefore we will manage the economy people manage our policy even manage the internal policies now iran is the 1st prime minister in the history of bias who says openly that the military and his government on the same speech he is the one who mentions military most of the time in his speeches in his statements and he gets this impression he makes these claims that the military is backing him the military is good whatever policies he pulls what out odyssey he pursues so well and of the military who was in the politics of the last 73 years i mean they were. it was not the people who are saying that military is one of the major players but

in the past 3 years now it appears that the the current government the prime minister not prefers to associate and bad. i've gone and depend on the military and he says literally and. pursuing the same policies and the defense of august for the betterment of august. ok. ok mississippi. let's come back to you we talk about the economy g.d.p. growth was at a decade high when enron contacts power 5.8 percent even before the pandemic it had trunk to 1.9 percent that was 2819 now it's gone into the negative for the 1st time in 70 years there was a downward trend here already the numbers say that how responsible is a man caught in the p.t.i. hair or did you just inherit a difficult situation yes definitely the foot before i go on to the economy i would like to clarify of that courtyard what mr but i just said it's

a it's there's no doubt that the military has been in power of on different occasions but this this time around. who is the most popular leader in pakistan and he always was very popular amongst the youth of this country because he was a cricket star he was international athlete and he had done a lot of social work before coming into power late making a concert hospital making universities and doing other social work so he was already a normal person in this country and the reason people wanted for him was that people were fed up with the with the party system where which they would they turns and destroyed the economy and that students of this country so that's why the people of pakistan chose imran khan as their prime minister and their most popular leader because imran khan has an unchecked that has a as

a very. a great record of being an honest man and he's a great leader and that's why they elected him and no no. now the only complaint that the opposition which is hiding behind the economic figures or through. of other of these protests is because iran han is going after them because he wants as the people mandated him. get the get the money stolen money back from abroad so that is why they are talking like this now i think what i want to comment you are my son there is what i say i say right from now to me is shrinking at the cost of living is going on us so what's your response to that ok let me tell you again that you know that in the. game we are already in the highly indebted situation and that is why everybody was saying why do you go to a doctor when you are not well that's why we had to immediately go to i.m.f.

because i cannae was not doing well and this is what they left pakistan basically after we came into power 1st job was to stabilize economy that artificially short the dollar. value just to encourage imports and if they had made it as an import then when economy and similarly their exports were shrinking so we just stabilized we devalue the currency to barter to where it's it's at the end of value and as a result our foreign debt obviously would increase in the in the local currency terms 2nd lease after that we have stabilized the economy we stabilize the exchange rate be increased exports out explore side raising and i don't at that car for an image this is our to record our luskin manufacturing is going up our current account deficit which was at that was $60000000000.00 we brought her down by 20000000000 dollars within these short span of time i've got an excellent says i

know everyone has an opportunity like here endemic i've got to make sure everyone here has an opportunity to respond we are not have just lost momentum doesn't carry quite got just lost. just last comment just like last comment that despite colbert out economy has done very well the economy's out across the world the status economy the u.s. u.k. your up everybody japan all have shrunk and that current source saying that pakistan the economy for the 1st time isn't negative would be bit unfair because we did extremely well on the court front and people including the finest finance secretary of us said that if they had a magic arts followed focused on example they would have saved 10 trillion dollars ok hi how are you going to have managed i mean i think he did i guess if you have missed the right of reply i can see you shaking your head go ahead. i think that my friend has some of the numbers wrong exports actually.

exploded in the midst of. them and. they've been the year that i left as finance minister their exports were $27.00 or $24750000000.00 in their 1st year before they actually 6 or by 500000000 dollars of percent and the next year we're going to again produce export play $20000000000.00 can you tell me if you know how this translates to every day people go i want to know what the cost of living what this means for the cost of living what this means for people who want to buy rice what this means for everyday people. so so so so the thing is that after 40 percent devaluation they're still not able to increase exports but what happened was that they've doubled the price of sugar of the left at the price of 155 piece but gauge event $215.00 apiece they've doubled the price of wheat flour there is sure to defeat flour right not after we do years of the last 2 years of b m a lender would wish i would have energy now there's no natural gas in it in your

stove in your factories that electricity in your training to do something or sort of red dead which is the power sector deficit that is actually going up the diff diff increased gas stoves by 140 percent of increased power tariffs by 50 percent and yet there is a lot of deficit in most this this is distributed even people who support the wrong time or the simple most incompetent government that ever have been ok and the number if you for one last point if i mean they did they had a minister to come tent in 15 days he allows drugs the history spite of the drug prices by 500 percent he has done good moved a bit sector general of the party but no no action was taken against him and the president got reduced so from medicine i'm still very far p.t.s. test a lot of things and they've made everything worse ok we could go back and forth but we also i have for analysis i'd like to come back to you mr potter if the country is really at a point of mass movement if the opposition does have all of this memento why not

just table a no confidence motion against him on the how much momentum does do you think the opposition really has right now i think that opposition has to go along wait. have been able to get nice. big rallies in certain cities but they don't have yet the momentum. everybody comes out on the streets and protest against the government and suppression which can you know force a demand for. it's of pakistan. they have the part of the government so i don't think a position is at that stage yet we're. moved to go by street protests yes through in house with 3 or more. went of no confidence began to move the government because as slim majority actually he realised.

he doesn't have enough numbers to keep the government as of his own party. but again even if the opposition brings that not only does the next government will be a weak a government depending independence and lots of other. partners and absolutely the positions say is. that parliament the military establishment has. you just see a big sea in of our mission of governments even they can manipulate and they can make that many others in the parliament and decisions and not mickey so this if the establishment get enties them that. they were back out that they would not support him as it runs is the. maybe they're able to remove.

this thing that at this time as we speak iran has its full backing and support of the establishment in the console when that that is the it's difficult position to bring in not unfair dismissal and the street protest ok thank you so much your time we have to leave it there we're out of time i appreciate you coming on the program thanking to what i guess. it's now and thanking too for what. and see the program again any time by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com falls dash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. in that story for me kevin l. and from the whole team here in our.

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