- Asif Ali Zardari says that jail gave him time to read books on economy.
- “There is a solution to everything in politics,” says the former president.
- Zardari says that elections will be held when I say.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that during his time in jail, he had read several books on the economy and to take the country’s dwindling foreign exchange reserves to $100 billion. Are confident.
Zardari, who served prison terms in the 1990s and 2000s, said that when he studied books on the economy, his advice helped the then PPP government increase its foreign exchange reserves to $24 billion.
During the meeting at Bilawal House Lahore, Zardari told the ticket holders of People’s Party that when I take charge of the economy, I will take the foreign exchange reserves to 100 billion dollars.
The PPP elder said that the army’s budget is not that big, but it is subjected to unnecessary propaganda.
Zardari, who was president from 2008 to 2013, said, “There is a solution to everything in politics. People who don’t understand politics, they don’t even have a solution.”
The PPP co-chairman said without elaborating that “they” cannot hold elections within the next two months and that elections will be held only when “I say so”.
Pakistan is currently facing a balance of payments crisis as the economic crisis affects the economy, with foreign exchange reserves standing at just above $4 billion, enough for less than a month’s worth of imports.
The South Asian country has also so far been unable to secure external financing as the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) bailout program has stalled. Pakistan has no other option but to restore the program and avoid default.