ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media lftikharDurrani Tuesday said the government was ready to improve and amend the lawof National Accountability Bureau and make it more effective and strongagainst corruption and corrupt people.
He held responsible the past regimes of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz andPakistan Peoples Party for not amending the accountability law and theleaders of the opposition parties were making a hue and cry in the NationalAssembly over non-issues and trying to escape from accountability.
Talking to a private news channel, he said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were not serious to talk aboutthe public issues in parliament, rather they were trying to pressurize thegovernment to stop investigation of corruption cases against their leaders.
The leaders of both the parties, he said, were trying to escape fromaccountability by using derogatory language in the parliament, however, thePTI government would not succumb to such tactics and cases against thecorrupt would be pursued till their logical end.
He said the government was taking all steps to put the looters behind thebars.
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Durrani suggested that the political parties should come forward andsupport the government in legislation process so that effective work couldbe done for the betterment of people.
He said the country was moving forward on the path of progress andprosperity and in coming few months a huge foreign investment would havebeen made in the country, which would help boost the national economy,besides bring revolutionary development in every sector. lftikhar Durranisaid the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government was in consultation with otherpolitical parties to make the accountability bureau more powerful to dealwith the menace of corruption strongly.
Responding to a question about accountability, he said other than PrimeMinister Imran Khan there was not a single leader or head of politicalparty who had given the detail of their properties.
