Peshawar: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has held Pakistan’s Army Generals and Politicians responsible for the country’s unprecedented economic crisis and warned them of consequences if they did not stop “looting” the people and national resources.
The TTP, which is waging a war for imposing of Sharia in Pakistan, issued a “message to anti-national Generals and elites who fill their pockets with national property”, saying they cannot be allowed to continue the loot in the name of saving the country’s economy.
It said Pakistan was facing the historic economic crisis only because the Army Generals and corrupt politicians had pushed it towards this fate by behaving like “Godfathers” of the country.
“In the name of saving the country’s economy, Pakistani generals and politicians, who have sunk the country’s economy and brutally looted the nation’s resources, have in collusion mortgaged the most valuable properties owned by the Pakistani nation — Islamabad Airport, Pakistan Steel Mill, Karachi Port Qasim and the country’s main highways,” said the statement issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khurasani.
“Apart from this, the Army recently has been allotted vast stretches of land for agriculture which will be leased out to different countries. With the income from this, the Generals and corrupt politicians will fill their pockets and after retirement they will go to foreign countries and the people will be left in the lurch,” the statement added.
The TTP said it cares for the interests of every citizen living in Pakistan, whether they are Punjabi or Sindhi, Muhajir or Pashtun, Saraiki or Baloch, and “therefore, we strongly condemn such decisions in which the interests of the nation are affected and its economic exploitation is done.”
It concluded: “We warn these Generals and corrupt politicians that if the do not stop looting Pakistani people and national resources, they will face consequences from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.”
Pakistan has been facing an unprecedented economic crisis and forced to beg other countries and global financial agencies like International Monetary Fund (IMF) for loans to prevent total collapse.
