{"id":22756,"date":"2025-10-10T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22756"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:04:23","slug":"ttap-slams-govt-over-fake-economic-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22756","title":{"rendered":"TTAP slams govt over ‘fake economic narrative’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) leaders on Thursday accused the government of misleading the public over the country’s economic condition, alleging manipulation of growth data, underreporting of trade deficits, and a worsening business climate that has driven major international firms out of Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Addressing a news conference in the federal capital, former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair said the ruling elite had deceived the nation by presenting an overly optimistic picture of the economy.<\/p>\n

“We only present the truth about the economy,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The government and the elite tell you something else. An impression is given that prime minister’s visits to Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and China brought unprecedented prosperity.”<\/p>\n

Zubair claimed that from 2022 to 2026, Pakistan would witness the lowest growth rate in its history, rejecting official claims of a 5.7 per cent GDP growth. “These figures are false. This government has become a nightmare for the people,” he remarked.<\/p>\n

“The investment made in the past two years is the lowest in the country’s last 70 years.”<\/p>\n

Zubair said the government underreported imports by $11 billion and failed to respond to the IMF about the discrepancies.<\/p>\n

“This means both the trade and current account deficits were deliberately understated,” Zubair said, and urged accountability.<\/p>\n

“[The government] should be ashamed [of itself.]. If it were the previous government, they would have been asked to resign.”<\/p>\n

Speaking on the occasion, former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra said the government’s claims of economic stability were a “pack of lies”.<\/p>\n

He noted that major multinationals had exited Pakistan, describing it as a devastating blow to investor confidence. “Those were among the world’s biggest corporations. Their exit reflects [government’s] policy failure,” he said, adding that there had been no significant investment in the automotive sector either. “People are suffering, yet there is no relief.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) leaders on Thursday accused the government of misleading the public over the country’s economic condition, alleging manipulation of growth data, underreporting of trade deficits, and a worsening business climate that has driven major international firms out of Pakistan. Addressing a news conference in the federal capital, former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}