Own goal

Since after being shown the door PMLN’s Miftah Ismail is nothing but a moaning Minnie. He has targeted everyone in his party for pursuing economic policies detrimental to the country and his own goal is Ishaq Dar and by implication the top leadership that removed him. He keeps on venting his spleen through frequent diatribes on media castigating the shortsighted policies of his party and trying to drive the point home that he was not allowed to continue with his brand of treatment that, he claims, was what was needed to put the economy back on rails. His claim that the default risk has climbed up again and has reached dangerous levels caused jitters in financial circles compelling Ishaq Dar to come to the fore and assure that it was not the case. Miftah Ismail has gone to the extent to state that the coalition government has no right to criticise PTI or anyone else if, having eagerly decided to come in power, it is unable to do what is right for the country. Own goal of ishaq dar is certainly a serious indictment and coming from a former finance minister is a matter to seriously ponder upon. TW

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