Imran Khan, the leader of the PTI, and Finance Minister Miftah Ismail engaged in a Twitter argument over the rupee’s recent decline versus the dollar.
In response to Khan’s tweet on rising inflation and the local currency’s depreciation under the coalition government, the finance minister in a thread compared the performance of the PTI-led government with that of the previous administration.
According to Miftah, Khan took office with the Pakistani rupee at 122 and left it there at 190. In his words, Pakistan owed Rs. 25,000 billion, but when he left, the government still owed Rs. 44,000 billion.
According to Miftah, Khan took office with the Pakistani rupee at 122 and left it there at 190. Pakistan owes Rs. 25,000 billion, he continued.
The finance minister claimed that the coalition government prevented Pakistan from defaulting and blamed the PTI chairwoman for the predicament the country is in.
We know who the true thief is, he said, “from Toshakhana watches to foreign money to handing confiscated £190 million back to demanding jewellery to Farah Khan exercising power and accepting bribes.