{"id":17981,"date":"2022-08-26T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2022-08-26T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:26:19","slug":"come-out-of-your-office-abid-sher-ali-tells-miftah-ismail-over-inflated-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=17981&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Come out of your office&#8217;, Abid Sher Ali tells Miftah Ismail over inflated electricity bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>PML-N leader asks Finance Minister Miftah to provide relief to people or else he would also join protests.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>\u201cNew agreement should be negotiated and signed with the IMF,\u201d he suggests.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Abid Sher Ali says Miftah Ismail\u2019s statement disappointed the party members.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1661473391569\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>FAISALABAD: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has once again been pushed into a moment where friend and foe alike are gunning him for \u201ctough decisions\u201d that the coalition government took after coming into power in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tussles within the party intensified when PML-N leader Abid Sher Ali on Thursday said that today the coalition is fighting against the inflated-electricity bills and not with PTI Chairperson Imran Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a press conference flanked by Talal Chaudhry, Ali said: \u201cWe are disappointed by Miftah\u2019s statement. In Nawaz Sharif\u2019s era, people faced 18 hours of load shedding but the party supremo ended the misery despite pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMiftah\u00a0<em>sahab\u00a0<\/em>come out of your office,\u201d he taunted, urging him not to implement the conditions of the IMF which were signed by the previous PTI government.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNew agreement should be negotiated and signed with the IMF,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urging him to provide relief to the people, he said that the government is fighting against the electricity bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has become difficult for a leader to visit their constituencies. If relief isn\u2019t provided, we would also join the people protesting against the skyrocketing inflation,\u201d he warned the finance minister, adding that 200 units of electricity are consumed by people who have one motor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News PML-N leader asks Finance Minister Miftah to provide relief to people or else&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-pakistan","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17986,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions\/17986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}