MQM offers proposals for new budget

Deputy Convener Farooq Sattar said that if government can up to Rs1200 bilion and, Pakistan didn’t need not to seek IMF’s help.While speaking at Khursheed Begum Memorial he said that MQM’s proposals on budget has five parts. He was of the view that his party had offered such a dignified and pragmatic project which may help eradicate poverty and unemployment, provide academic and health facilities, add industrial and agricultural production, proving solution of all the problems faced by the nation.He contended that government should focus its attention on the crisis of energy, decrease in mark-up while reviewing monetary policy.He was of the opinion that prices of petroleum and electricity should be maintained while keeping in view the masses’ economic condition.He informed that MQM had suggested about the establishment of an impartial commission in order probe into loans taken on political basis.He emphasized that tax should be imposed on all taxable properties. This may add to Rs200 billion tax, he maintained.