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talk to some 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 the bridge to 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 alleging khan fortunately financed his campaign they say the

prime minister accepted illegal funds from abroad during the 2013 elections last week homes policy admitted raising campaign funds through foreign accounts but playing to illegalities agents the us without satisfying exactly who they were medium leaders say khan committed 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 airline side right now president in front of the election commission of pakistan which are situated in the red zone normally broader the norden. government had said there didn't order or go in order for your borders there to. and it brought data in front of the election commission of pakistan in 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 forge a brown calls government. inside story. where the p.d.f. 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's 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 as ahmad chalabi files information minister imran khan's pakistan tehreek e insaf party and the shoah sure as political analyst and commentator and karate

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 the d.m.z. protest in regard to the foreign funding case well i want to put that on record that bug just on that he can solve is the 1st political party which started a proper organized and recorded 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 someone to do the election commission of pakistan 40000. north to the east and. authenticated proofs of all the donations that have come from abroad and we have some richard this since long ago but better to be d.m. the position 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. then 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 brought broadsheet case apart from the panorama scandal that came up in 2016 ok so the 1st names i asked the 4 women on the 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 initiative case was wide by a b.t.i. founding member in 2004 deep so it has taken 6 long years and b.t.r. has used every demagoguery tech ticket can every delaying technique if you can't do

not submit the documents there are very very few simple questions that the us one there is this money coming from who is it that funding. it could be pakistan that could be foreigners and if these bike is funny but mean what is the point of money and i will industries big help no by the founder g.b. and secondly there is this money going is this money going just for a particular part party visas or that going for personal expenses and via this so many shell companies the p.d.i. has formed. to do to channel these do nations into why is there such a complicated variable for 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 that 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 it just region will end and but the government and the government here for but obviously the government is doing everything it can to deliver 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 beattie i tried to you know. wasn't many open and clear that 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 heard so far definitely as we're later prettify there's been only 13 months that we had in government he was 40 years where there 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 out of the court financial record in front of this court a committee got shorted 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 bugs ton was leaked no 1 may have not delivered the case was in supreme court and it was then referred to the election of commissioner. stunt 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 by august

on 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 language of 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 that 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 recession or ordered by these of 11 parties would 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 canada p.t.i. is on the pressure regardless of what mystifies says how do you think that it might kahn has got to this point i mean in the years 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 believe in be if achieved gesture and said that you know. elections were rigged and you know the man was selected and elected but now they're out of pakistan you should get more. support and many pakistanis are very hopeful that now that he's here he's going to fulfil even some of the think that you said you would be. a bit dismayed is what we call you or flip flopping or if you just basically lives and you need everything to be said he's actually. on against. this this is not a democratic if you 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 before i was going at 5.8 percent. last it was negative 0.4 percent this year will give you that goal 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 at the deficits in buckets on the deck divided 40 percent of the debt before i could stand over all of that in just 2 years what we had in 70 years divided in 2 years ago i said of that we're going to get into the oh we're going to we're going to go we're going to nail down and throw down 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 dogs promise to come have and why

is that so important for an international audience who doesn't understand who may not understand the role of the minute transposed on put that into context for us. thank you the pakistani military considers itself as jordan of stede idea which is that the 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 the going to go directly 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 its 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 the policy even manage the internal policies now iran is the 1st prime minister in the history of who says it 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 odysseys he pulls what out odyssey he pursues so well and of the military was in the politics for 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. gone and depend on the military and he says military and. pursuing the same policies and the defense was august for the betterment of august on. the night ok mississippi. let's come back to you we talk about the economy g.d.p. growth was at a decade high when enron contact fell 5.8 percent even before the pandemic it had trump 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 imran khan 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 norn person in this country and the reason people wanted for him was that people were fed up with the with the with the party system where which they were does and destroyed the economy and the studios 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 commend you i must and this is why i say i say right from the outset me is shrinking at the cost of living is going on us so what's your response to that ok let me tell you 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 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 devalued the currency to barter to where it's it's to 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 and explore side of raising and i don't at that part of foreign image this is our to record our lives in manufacturing is going up our current account deficit which was i thought was $60000000000.00 be brought her down by 20 $1000000000.00 within these short span of time i've cut and they actually

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 more than a dozen of very quick guy just last. just last comment just like last comment that despite colbert out economy has done very well the economy is out across the world the stablished 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 art followed focused on example they would have saved 10 trillion dollars ok hi how are you as i have managed i may think you did i guess if you have missed the right of reply i can see you shaking your head so go ahead. i think that my friend has some of the numbers wrong exports it should be. established

in the. work of. the us that i left as finance minister there exporter $27.00 or $24750000000.00 in their 1st year before covert action 6 or by 500000000000 dollars of percent in the next year over year to again produce export play $20000000000.00 can you traditional 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 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. left at the price of $155.00 piece but gauge $8215.00 apiece they've doubled the price of wheat flour there is sure to defeat flour right now after do years of the last 2 years of b m a lender more shortage of energy now there's no natural gas in it in your stove in

your factories that electricity in your training there's something or sort of predict which is the power sector deficit that is actually going up defective increased gas stoves by 140 percent have increased power tariffs by 50 percent and yet there is a lot of deficit in most this this is distributed even people who support ron found more that this is the most incompetent government that ever has been ok and remember if for one last point 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 a good move to meet sector general of the party but no no action was taken against him at the present government reduced so from medicine still very far that b.t.s. passed 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 this suppression which can you know force a demand for. it's of pakistan. they have the barge and 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 has slim majority actually he realized.

he doesn't have enough numbers to keep the government as of his own body. but again even if the opposition brings that or not. the next government will be a weak a government depending independents and lots of other. partners and absolutely the position c. is in pakistan 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 there. they were back out that they would not support him as it runs is the out of 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 and the console when that that is there it's difficult of on a position to bring in not one fetus. under 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 thank you to what i guess 75 as. the star is now and ranking 2 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 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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