HYDERABAD, April 5: The central information secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Mr Siddiqul Farooq, has said that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has not invested his his own Rs5 billion in the country because he is not sure about success of his economic policies. He said the Constitution was a sacred document which guaranteed democracy, fundamental human rights and prosperity of the people and it must be protected at all costs. He was speaking at a news conference at the press club on Tuesday.

Mr Farooq painted a very gloomy picture of the prevailing political and economic situation in the country.

He said there was lawlessness in the country, disharmony between the federation and provinces had increased and unemployment was at its peak.

He said sky-rocketing prices of consumer goods had broken the back of the common man.

He said the people were committing suicide due to poverty and hunger and salaries of an army of ministers and advisers had been increased manifold and billions of rupees were being spent on import of their Mercedes cars.

The PML-N leader said corruption had crossed all limits and the National Accountability Bureau was not only promoting corruption but also grooming the corrupt people holding high posts.

He said the government was implementing the agenda which was being dictated by foreign masters.

Mr Farooq said the stock market had crashed and now the banks were being asked to pump in money to resurrect the market.

He said so-called facts being propagated by the government in respect of state of economy were fake and jugglery of numbers.

He said the head of the state was trained to unleash false propaganda and that was exactly what he was doing.

He said the people were utterly disappointed with all policies of the government and all they needed was motivation.

He called upon the political parties to awaken the masses and bring them out for the restoration of democracy and constitution.

Replying to a question about the ARD, he said the alliance was united on the agenda of restoration of democracy but the PPP and PML-N had their own ideologies and manifestos.