Pakistan has to return $20 bn to world: Miftah Ismail

• Pakistan took money from one country and gave it to another, he said.
• Miftah said, “We failed to save the children from hunger.”
• He said Pakistan was not suitable even for Pakistanis.

QUETTA: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Saturday said that Pakistan had to return Rs20 billions to the world, Bol News reported.

While addressing the event National Dialogue in Quetta, he stated that Pakistan took money from one country and gave it to another. “Yet millions of children suffer from hunger in Pakistan,” he said.

Miftah said, “We failed to save the children from hunger, instead we are talking about real freedom.”

He went on to say that unemployment was the core problem of the country. Bangladesh was half in size to us but it has gone ahead of us, he maintained.

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He added that Pakistan was not suitable even for Pakistanis, as 80 million Pakistanis are living in poverty, “Every third person in Pakistan is poor. We have to be conscious of our directions,” he said.

Miftah said that 60 per cent of Pakistanis income was less than Rs35, 000. Minimum wage of the country should be increased, he added.

In the event, the former finance minister said that he was starting the conference of Reimagining Pakistan from Quetta.