*PESHAWAR – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government decided on Tuesday to bar itscabinet ministers from making foreign visits and getting medical treatmentabroad, provincial Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai said Tuesday.*
As part of its austerity measures, the provincial government has reducedthe salaries of its cabinet members by 12%, Yousafzai said.
The minister criticised the opposition parties for protesting the arrest offormer president Asif Ali Zardari. He is currently in NAB’s custody in thefake accounts case.
“What did they do for the country?” he asked, referring to Zardari andformer prime minister Nawaz Sharif. “They destroyed this country,” he said.
NAB has accused Zardari of plotting to “misappropriate and launder” moneythrough his associates to whiten what the bureau terms his “ill-gotten”money through fake accounts in Summit Bank. He has also been accused ofcontrolling and benefiting from the transactions in the fake accounts.
Yousafzai said that his government hasn’t made a single case againstmembers of the opposition, but he warned that more people would go to jail.