• He said the government would be responsible, if the agreement did not have signature of former finance minister Shaukat Tarin on the IMF deal.
• He said an agreement was made with the IMF that the subsidy would be zeroed.
• The interior minister said Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Supremo Nawaz Sharif was hurt because of increase in prices of the petroleum products.

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said the coalition govt had to inflate petrol price to zero the subsidy given by the previous government.

“The government amplified inflation to bring the subsidy to zero,” Rana Sanaullah said in a statement asking that who signed the deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to zero the subsidy and impose levies. He said the government would be responsible, if the agreement did not have signature of former finance minister Shaukat Tarin on the IMF deal.

He said an agreement was made with the IMF that the subsidy would be zeroed.

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The interior minister said Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Supremo Nawaz Sharif was hurt because of increase in prices of the petroleum products. He said Nawaz Sharif was not in favour of enchancing the petrol price.

He said if the government would have opted for general elections, then there was a fear of the country’s going into default.

Rana Sanaullah said another reason for the inflation was bad governance which would be ended now.

On July 2, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz had kind of agreed with Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan that petrol and diesel prices would further increase.

“The Fitna Khan says the prices of petrol and diesel will further rise. So who else will know this, if not him? The Fitna Khan has only one grief that why Pakistan did not become like Sri Lanka, even though he had made complete arrangements in this regard,” Maryam Nawaz had said, in response to Imran Khan’s statements, while addressing a rally in Lahore.

She had said the government was coerced to enhance petrol and diesel prices because of the deal made by the Fitna Khan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He had made a deal with the IMF and then refused to fulfill it, she had added.

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