Times of Islamabad

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry hits out at opposition

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry hits out at opposition

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry FawadHussain here Monday said that opposition should not get worried after theprime minister’s announcement to arrest people involved in looting thenational kitty.

Speaking in the Senate, the minister said that Pakistan Muslim League(PML-N) had appointed Saif-ur-Rehman as the chairman NationalAccountability Bureau for conducting accountability.

He pointed out that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was politicallyvictimized during the PML-N’s tenure by the then chairman NAB appointed bythe PML-N. He said it was strange that the perpetrators of targetedaccountability in the past were now calling for a transparentaccountability system.

Why the Opposition was now so much worried when the prime minister talkedabout arresting those thieves, who had looted the national kitty, hequestioned. The country could not move on the road to progress, prosperityand development without ensuring transparent accountability and justicesystem, he added.

The minister condemned those involved in criticizing the law enforcementagencies and said that he belonged to thedistrict which had 347 martyred personnel. “Every village of the Jhelum hasa Ghazi and all of us are pound of it,” he added.