ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services MuradSaeed Monday said PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal had either lost his memory dueto fear or he was intentionally ignoring the facts because he as ministerhad allegedly made bucks through corruption and nepotism.
Murad Saeed, while reacting to the media talk of Ahsan Iqbal soon after hisarrest by the National Accountability Bureau, alleged in a statement thatthe Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader took full advantage of hisposition in the last government and in collusion with the then Punjab chiefminister Shehbaz Sharif got inducted his horticulturalist brother into theprovincial task force for horticulture.
He claimed that Ahsan Iqbal’s brother was awarded contracts of several megaprojects, including Rawalpindi and Lahore metros and Liberty Market parkinglot on the recommendations of Shehbaz Sharif in sheer violation of PublicProcurement Regulatory Authority rules and the record of all the meetingsheld in that regard was available.
The “Political Aristotle” had devoured billions of rupees from the publicexchequer through such corrupt practices and now like his leader NawazSharif was trying to evade from reality, he added.
He said PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif was declared dishonest by the higherjudiciary as he could neither produce any ‘receipts’ nor the Qatari letteror the Calibri font used by his daughter did any work.
On the other hand, he said, the higher courts gave a clean chit to PrimeMinister Imran Khan declaring him ‘Sadiq aur Ameen’ (truthful and honest).He had presented the full detail of his earnings of the period when he washolding no government office.
One could produce the ‘receipts’ about his income after lapse of years ifit was earned through fair means, he added.
Murad Saeed said today the nation was paying the cost for the worst lootand plunder of public money by the PML-N government. The “PoliticalAristotle” fully capitalized on the situation and made money throughcorrupt practices, he alleged, Ahsan Iqbal, who received stipend from JatiUmra, should better tell the nation about his corruption instead oflecturing on politics, he added He said he was being questioned about the“crimes” he had committed in connivance with Javed Sadiq for the last manymonths but he was not giving the answer.
The minister said the PML-N government had left behind debt of $24 billiondollars and the present government had to pay some 10 billion dollars ofinterest on that loan.
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The previous government, he said, had ruined the exports with free-for-allimports. On the other hand, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government wassupporting the local industrial production to enhance exports and at thesame time stopping imports, he added.
Moreover, he said, the PML-N regime had overburdened the nation with thecostly electricity generating projects and the circular debt, while thepresent cabinet of PTI government approved affordable and people- friendlypower projects, besides making efforts to overcome on circular debt.
The minister said the stock exchange which was left by Ahsan Iqbal’sgovernment in the ruins, was today on the upward trajectory.
Pakistan’s dying economy was not out of the ‘intensive care unit’ as thePTI government had cleared all the mess created by the previous regime andthe now the country was moving on path to economic development, he added.
He said Ahsan Iqbal was devoid of moral courage to laud the PTI’sgovernment performance vis a vis his government’s failure on that account.
He said the PTI government would fulfill all the promises, which the partyhad made with the nation, despite all the conspiracies being hatched by theopposition. It would recover the looted public money from the plunderersand strengthen the economy.
The nation, he said, would no more listen to the lectures delivered bythose who were fully involved in corrupt practices while in government, sothere was no option for them except for giving account of their corruption.
