Coalition govt paid a great price to save state, says PM Shehbaz Sharif

DERA ISMAIL KHAN (92 News) - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the coalition government paid a great price to save the state.

Addressing a ceremony after laying the foundation stone of eight projects on Tuesday, he said that there would have been a stain on the forehead on him as well as leadership if the country had defaulted.

"The coalition government inherited the most difficult challenges of the history. We had to make a great struggle to strike the IMF deal. Everyone used to ask us what will happen," he maintained. The prime minister said that they had put the country on the positive path.

APP adds: PM Shehbaz Sharif said: “We faced the devastating flood on one side, and inflation, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) pressure, and political crisis on the other. Such challenging problems have never been faced by me in my whole life,” he said.

He said the former regimes had fully utilized the country’s rich resources such as hydro power the country might have affordable and clean energy, and stressed to overhaul the faulty power transmission system causing over Rs 400 billion annual losses to the national exchequer.

PM Shehbaz vowed to break the begging bowl by curtailing the government expenses. "A comprehensive plan of the Pakistan Green Initiative had been undertaken to take the country to new heights of development and prosperity."