ISLAMABAD: Lashing out at the government’s economic policies, the opposition parties have termed the latest reshuffle in the cabinet “meaningless”, saying the problem does not lie in the cabinet, but in the person heading it. The leaders of two major opposition parties — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — on Saturday said the appointment of the fourth finance minister in three years proved that the economic policies of the government were a total failure and a confession by the rulers that they had failed to provide any economic relief to the masses. The leaders of the PPP and the PML-N also expressed surprise over the timing of the change in the cabinet, saying each time the government had changed finance minister only weeks before the presentation of the federal budget. The reaction from the opposition parties came on the day when President Dr Arif Alvi administered an oath to the newly-appointed Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and Science and Technology Minister Shibli Faraz at a ceremony at Aiwan-i-Sadr. Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday changed portfolios of five ministers while bringing in Shaukat Tarin to replace finance minister Hammad Azhar, who had been recently given the charge in place of Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.,.
Source: dawn.com
