No more leniency for corrupt leaders: Imran
SHEIKHUPURA: Terming the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) treachery to Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday declared that those who had made the country bankrupt or those involved in corruption would no longer be allowed to walk away free.
While addressing the launching ceremony of a countrywide plantation drive in the Balloki area of Nankana Sahab district, Mr Khan said the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government tried its level best to accommodate the opposition and let the parliament work during the past five months, but it would no longer give any concession to the corrupt leaders.
The previous two concessions given by General Musharraf under the NRO to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Ali Zardari had caused unprecedented loss to the country, he said, lamenting that the foreign loans surged over five times since 2006 due to the massive corruption of the PML-N and PPP governments.
Mr Khan said Gen Musharraf allowed Mr Sharif to leave the country under the NRO to save his own seat despite the fact that there was an accountability reference in court with concrete evidence, including Ishaq Dar’s confessional statement and a BBC documentary against the massive corruption of the PML-N supremo. He said the other NRO that damaged the country was given to Mr Zardari by Gen Musharraf though Rs2 billion of this nation had been spent on the investigation of the major corruption cases.
PM says concessions given by Musharraf to PML-N, PPP leaders damaged Pakistan; launches countrywide plantation drive in Balloki
Mr Khan said those allegedly involved in fake bank accounts by siphoning off billions of rupees and owners of illegal foreign assets were summoning the NAB authorities in the parliament.
Comparing past governments with his PTI government, he said three ministers had resigned on allegations of corruption within the past five months. “This is the change,” he said.