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PML-N lawmakers on Tuesday criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) 100-day plan, calling it a "shoddy copy of PML-N's Vision 2020".
PTI on Sunday had unveiled its ambitious “agenda” outlining the party’s commitments for starting work within the first 100 days of forming its government after the 2018 general elections.
The salient features of the agenda are the expeditious merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bifurcation of Punjab province and reconciliation with estranged Baloch leaders.
"The plan is plagued with internal contradictions," said Interior minister Ahsan Iqbal, who was accompanied by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail and Special Adviser to PM for Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan, at a press conference today.
"It is not realistic in any way. Even if you want to copy something, you need brains to do it."
Iqbal lambasted the PTI for its "poor" performance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, calling it a mere "presentation party".
"Pakistan will not be won by presentation; it will be won over by performance and PML-N has performed," Iqbal said, terming PTI Chief Imran Khan a "NATO commander — No Action, Talk Only".
He claimed that the PTI had no right to announce a 100-day plan unless the party presents the "scorecard" of the 1,825 days it has spent governing the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
He also mocked the PTI chief for starting a metro bus project in Peshawar "after ridiculing the Punjab government for doing the same".
"In 2014, [the KP government] asked the planning commission for permission to ask for a loan from the Asian Development Bank because they wanted to build a metro bus in Peshawar. It's been four years, and there is still no sign of the metro buses. They haven't even put up fences along the tracks," the interior minister said, adding that Peshawar "has been ruined due to the ongoing construction".
PTI on Sunday had unveiled its ambitious “agenda” outlining the party’s commitments for starting work within the first 100 days of forming its government after the 2018 general elections.
The salient features of the agenda are the expeditious merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bifurcation of Punjab province and reconciliation with estranged Baloch leaders.
"The plan is plagued with internal contradictions," said Interior minister Ahsan Iqbal, who was accompanied by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail and Special Adviser to PM for Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan, at a press conference today.
"It is not realistic in any way. Even if you want to copy something, you need brains to do it."
Iqbal lambasted the PTI for its "poor" performance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, calling it a mere "presentation party".
"Pakistan will not be won by presentation; it will be won over by performance and PML-N has performed," Iqbal said, terming PTI Chief Imran Khan a "NATO commander — No Action, Talk Only".
He claimed that the PTI had no right to announce a 100-day plan unless the party presents the "scorecard" of the 1,825 days it has spent governing the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
He also mocked the PTI chief for starting a metro bus project in Peshawar "after ridiculing the Punjab government for doing the same".
"In 2014, [the KP government] asked the planning commission for permission to ask for a loan from the Asian Development Bank because they wanted to build a metro bus in Peshawar. It's been four years, and there is still no sign of the metro buses. They haven't even put up fences along the tracks," the interior minister said, adding that Peshawar "has been ruined due to the ongoing construction".
