Pakistan, June 13 -- Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has said that the government has granted more privileges to the elite while further burdening the poor in the federal budget.
Addressing a press conference at Mansoorah on Thursday, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman strongly criticized the government's economic policies, saying it has neglected education, healthcare, and public safety while obsessively focusing on taxation.
"Uncle-niece regime has crossed all limits in oppressing farmers and damaging the agriculture sector. PPP is also their ally." In budget, he said, 111 departments have been granted tax exemptions and several of which are running businesses under the guise of charitable trusts.
The JI chief called for ...