LAHORE: The Pakistan People`s Party has rejected the economic package announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday.

Criticising the package, the party`s Punjab president Qamar Zaman Kaira said it contained nothing for the poor segments of society.

He said the prices of petroleum products in the local market should have been reduced proportionate to the fall in the world oil prices.

He alleged that Imran Khan emerged as an obstinate person instead of the prime minister of a nation during the corona crisis as his press conference on Tuesday was nothing but a `compilation of contradictions`.

He said the country was plunging into a lethal pandemic but the prime minister, because of his `mental confusion`, had been caught into the debate of lockdown and curfew.

Mr Kaira urged Imran Khan to rise above his political position and move towards building a national consensus on finalising a strategy for handling the coronavirus by announcing immediate steps to implement the recommendations suggested by the multi-party conference ofthe opposidon.

He also called upon the prime minister to make his economic package pro-poor as Rs3,000 per month financial aid for daily wagers was too meagre to meet their expenses.

PPP secretary general Chaudhry Manzoor said `inaction` by the prime minister had further deepened the corona crisis beingfaced by the country.

He said if all decisions were to be made by [Sindh chief minister] Murad Ali Shah, [Punjab chief minister] Usman Buzdar and director general of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), then what`s use of the PM office.