Pakistani lawmaker Syed Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday pointed out similarities between India and Pakistan’s achievements in his speech in Parliament. He said the world was reaching the moon, “but today in Karachi innocent children are losing their lives by falling into open gutters.”
“On the same screen, the news came that India had reached the moon, and two seconds later the news came that a child had died after falling into a drain in Karachi…” said Muttahida Quami leader Kamal. Ta. Movement for Pakistan (MQM-P) said in its speech:
The MQM-P leader posted a video of his speech during the opening of Parliament on Facebook on Wednesday. On Wednesday, several snippets of his speech video went viral on social media. Watch the video here:
Mustafa Kamal’s remarks were in reference to India’s successful Chandrayaan-3 mission in August last year. With Chandrayaan-3, India made history by becoming the first country to make a soft landing on the moon’s south pole.
Pakistani MP praises India’s education system
Kamal went on to claim that “2.062 billion children are out of school in Pakistan.” Praising India’s education system, he said, “If India is growing rapidly and excelling today, it is because of the education it has given its people…”
“Three decades ago, our neighbor India taught its people what the world needed. Today, Indians are the CEOs of 25 of the world’s top companies…Today, India has a global There are a lot of investments being made,” Kamal said.
He said this while emphasizing that Pakistan’s large youth population could be both an “opportunity” and a “threat” for the country. He said universities in Pakistan were an “industry” that produced “unemployed” youth. “This is because we are not teaching them what is needed in the world,” the MQM-P leader said.
He also criticized the government over Pakistan’s cash-strapped foreign exchange reserves, saying, “Our total foreign exchange reserves are between $8 billion and $9 billion, but we can’t even use them because we are taking loans… Sometimes it’s as low as 60 billion dollars. India’s foreign exchange reserves are $607 billion…
Last December, India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $2.8 billion to $607 billion in the week ending Dec. 8, the highest level in five months, according to Reserve Bank of India data.
Meanwhile, State Bank of Pakistan’s net foreign exchange reserves stood at $9.12 billion in the week ended May 3. Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund reportedly said Pakistan faces major debt repayment challenges and expressed serious doubts about the cash-strapped country’s financial situation. ability to repay global financial institutions;
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