ISLAMABAD – Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Wednesday thatCo-Chairman Pakistan Peoples’ Party Asif Ali Zardari has become ineligibleto remain member of the Parliament under Article 62 and 63 of theConstitution.
Talking to media here, he said that an apartment of Asif Zardari has beendisclosed in Manhattan, New York which he had not declared in his assets,and as per article 62 and 63 he should be disqualified as member of theparliament for concealing assets.
He said that the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf leader in Sindh Assembly KhurramSher Zaman would file a reference in Election Commission for thedisqualification of Asif Zardari.
He said that he has been saying time and again that both Nawaz Sharif andAsif Zardari have already contested their last elections and their days inpolitics were over and the government faced no political challenge from theopposition parties.
He said that all the cases and references against PML-N and PPP leadershipwere filed before PTI came to power, the PTI government has only made theinstitutions independent and they were now falling like proverbial hose ofcards.
He said that the PTI government was fulfilling its promise of introducingcorruption-free system of governance in the country.
He said that positive trends were coming in Pakistan politics as the visionof prime minister regarding looters of national wealth was very clear.
He said that the PTI government in KPK remained corruption and scandal free.
He said that environment for foreign investment was changing in Pakistanand clouds of darkness on Pakistan’s economy were clearing and theconfidence of foreign investors has been restored.
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He cited the British Airways announcement to resume its operations fromPakistan, and added that Portugal and France have changed their traveladvisory.
He said that Saudi Arabia was coming with record investment in Pakistanhistory.
The minister said that the difference between the past governments and thepresent dispensation was that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government’sfocus was on the poor and the government was making policies withcompassion for the poor, like the State of Medina Munawwara.
Reacting to an article in Washington Post, Minister for Information saidthe working-class Pakistanis are excited about the chicken and egganti-poverty programme of the government.
He said that Pakistan had great concern over Indian atrocities in occupiedKashmir and these atrocities should stop immediately.
To a question about property of Federal Minister Faisal Wada in London, hesaid that he has already declared this property in his assets detailssubmitted in the Election Commission.
