LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq believes the PTI has lost the confidence of the establishment which helped it to come to power in 2018.

Chairing the party meeting at Mansoora on Saturday, Sirajul Haq said mini-budget further increased the government unpopularity among the masses. “The IMF proposed mini-budget will not help the ruling party to fix the economy.”

The government, Sirajul Haq said, failed to check inflation and unemployment and it further burdened the poor with Rs 343 billion. The government so-called measures to put the economy on track will bring more disaster for the already poverty-stricken people, he said.

The government pushed the country to the slavery of the IMF, he said, holding the former governments equally responsible to the crises. The PTI, the PML-N and the PPP were sides of the same coins and they were only befooling the public, he said, maintaining the people were no more ready to listen to the fake promises and slogans of the ruling elite.

Reminding the prime minister his promise to provide jobs to millions of youth and build five million houses, he said the government rather rendered millions jobless and failed to provide roof to even a single person in three and half years.

The prime minister, Sirajul Haq said, had made frequent claims to curb the corruption but it become rampant in “Naya Pakistan.” The people were deceived by the PTI in the name of Madina-state, he said.

The meeting of central leadership discussed the prevailing political and economic situation and preparations for the local government and general elections. Led by JI vice Emir Liaqat Baloch, the JI committee on political matters presented the report on preparations of elections.

Sirajul Haq announced the JI will go for the election under its own flag and electoral symbol. Corruption free Islamic Pakistan will be the JI slogan in the polls, he said.