Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder was bearing the brunt of his "incompetence”.

Speaking exclusively on Samaa TV, Iqbal said: “It is not fair to say that the PTI has the majority. We are having a two-thirds majority.”

He recalled the ouster of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, saying, “Nawaz Sharif was ousted in an engineered way.”.

Iqbal said: “Hopefully, there will be no political confrontation.”.

Talking about Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Iqbal said: “It is a positive development that the KP chief minister came to meet the premier. What Ali Amin Gandapur had said was a ray of hope.”

He recalled the previous tenure of the PML-N, saying, “Between 2013 and 2018, the country had witnessed development.”

Iqbal emphasised the need to achieve political stability in the country. “When we made Vision 2010, nobody had such a plan.”

"Today, Bangladesh and India have surpassed us,” he lamented.

He admitted that the country was facing severe economic hardships.

– Ahsan Iqbal on warpath against PTI –

Few days back, Iqbal fired a fresh broadside at the PTI.

Speaking to media, Iqbal said: “The PTI is harming the country worldwide. The United States and International Monetary Fund (IMF) cannot provide the NRO to the PTI founder.”

He said: “We [PML-N] had never caused the uproar of bogus cases at the international forums. We faced bogus cases, and our leaders faced jail.”

Iqbal asked the PTI founder to prove his innocence in court. “The PTI is damaging the country’s reputation.”
“We had never penned a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or European Union (EU), despite the PML-N’s reservations about the 2018 general elections,” Iqbal said.

Recalling the events that transpired on May 9, she lamented, “The military installations were attacked on May 9.”