Islamabad, June 30 (Online): Prime Minister Imran Khan while speaking in the National Assembly has said that Pakistan has no doubt that India was behind yesterday’s attempted attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) in Karachi.
“What happened in Mumbai, they wanted to do the same in Karachi; they wanted to spread uncertainty. We have no doubt this was done by India,” the premier said.
The Prime Minister said our neighboring country has a major plan to destabilize Pakistan. He said our intelligence agencies were on high alert and it was because of their efforts that four of the terrorist attacks including two in the surroundings of Islamabad were preempted.
He praised a police sub-inspector and three security guards who lost their lives while thwarting the attack as the “heroes of Pakistan”. “They gave sacrifices and thwarted a major incident, which was planned by India to destabilise us,” he said. Adding that the attackers had a lot of ammunition and they wanted to take hostages. “My cabinet and its ministers know that all our agencies were on high alert. “We were fully prepared this was a huge win for us,” he said, paying tribute to the security agencies.
At the start of his speech, the prime minister thanked his team for their efforts which led to the budget 2020-21 being approved by the parliament yesterday. “There was a lot of speculation that a lot could happen. if you had watched TV you would have thought it was our last day,” he said, referring to fears the budget would be unable to be passed. “I want to thank my government, because Chief Whip Amir Dogar gave me full information about what we gained and what improvement we had. I also thank my minorities and the way they participated,” the premier said.
Prime Minister Imran said he and his finance team know “what a difficult budget this was” and the government had to revise its revenue target from Rs5,000 billion to Rs4,900 billion. “We were on our way and we had 17 per cent collection but as soon as Covid-19 came, it affected all the economies, so a direct consequence was that our target had to be revised to Rs3,900 billion [and] we had a Rs1 trillion shortfall. He said no country, including Pakistan, had been able to measure the impact the coronavirus lockdown would have on the economy.
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