{"id":3025,"date":"2025-06-16T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:37:05","slug":"budget-serves-foreign-interests-not-people-sheikh-rashid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/16\/budget-serves-foreign-interests-not-people-sheikh-rashid","title":{"rendered":"Budget Serves Foreign Interests, Not People: Sheikh Rashid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"793\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has lashed out at the federal budget, claiming it was crafted to satisfy international financial institutions rather than address the needs of the Pakistani people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"793\">Speaking to the media outside an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday, the former interior minister criticized the government\u2019s financial strategy, calling it a \u201cbudget of debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"793\">\u201cWhen the person presenting the budget himself admits it\u2019s based on debt, what more is left to say?\u201d Rashid remarked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"793\">He accused the government of neglecting the poor and favoring lenders over local welfare.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"841\">Budget Criticism Rooted in Debt Concerns<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"842\" data-end=\"1261\">Sheikh Rashid argued that the current economic policies demonstrate complete alignment with the conditions set by global lenders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"842\" data-end=\"1261\">He stressed that the budget lacks relief for the common man and only reflects the will of institutions like the IMF.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"842\" data-end=\"1261\">\u201cThis is not a people\u2019s budget; this is a creditors\u2019 budget,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"842\" data-end=\"1261\">He also warned that relying excessively on loans would drive the economy into deeper trouble.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1292\">On Israel-Iran Conflict<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1760\">Touching on foreign policy, Sheikh Rashid condemned Israel&#8217;s strikes on Iran, calling them a blatant violation of international law.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1760\">He asserted that the entire Pakistani nation stands with Iran in the face of aggression.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1760\">\u201cWe believe Iran is in the right. Every Muslim child in Pakistan supports Iran. Retaliation is their right,\u201d he declared.<br data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1643\" \/>Rashid\u2019s remarks come as regional tensions escalate and Pakistan faces mounting pressure to take a diplomatic stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has lashed out at the federal budget, claiming it was crafted to satisfy international financial institutions rather than address the needs of the Pakistani people. Speaking to the media outside an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday, the former interior minister criticized the government\u2019s financial strategy, calling &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,356,245],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-budget","tag-debt","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}