Shah says PM Imran Khan should accept his failure and inability to deliver
SUKKUR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Khursheed Shah is the latest politician to weigh in on Asad Umar stepping down as the finance minister.
“You could see the change of Asad Umar, he had failure upon failure,” Shah told reporters here on Friday.
Umar had stepped down a day earlier, saying he had decided to leave the federal cabinet when he was offered the energy over the finance ministry as part of a reshuffle.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government announced Dr Abdul Hazeez Sheikh would take over as the finance adviser. Sheikh, a world-renowned economist served as Pakistan’s finance minister from 2010 to 2013 in the PPP government.
“Hafeez Sheikh was our minister of finance. Again there is a need for the peoples party,” Shah said.
The PPP leader called on Prime Minister Imran Khan to accept his failure and inability to deliver.
“This [PTI] government still has a chance if they believe in the supremacy of the parliament and discuss all issues there.”