Siraj warns govt against selling national assets June 11, 2021 LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Siraj-ul-Haq has warned that the PTI government had formulated a programme to sell most of the national institutions, including power sector, banks, PIA and Pakistan Railways, which would further deepen the economic crisis that would result in inevitable unemployment, poverty and inflation in the country. In a pre-budget statement issued from Mansoorah on Thursday, Ameer JI Siraj-ul-Haq said the finance minister should fulfill his promise not to increase power tariffs and taxes in the budget. He said power plants have been shut down due to gas shortage, resulting in eight to twelve hours of loadshedding. He asked the federal minister the reason of paying the owners of non-operational power plants. He said it would be a wonder, if the government could meet even one of the targets set in the economic survey, demanding interest free loans to SMEs, and direct subsidies to the farmers.