ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan while dismissing the call by theOpposition for a million march to the capital has expressed the confidencethat the people would not come out on the streets to defend some corruptfamilies.
Talking to the media at the PM Office in Islamabad today, he said there hasnot ever been even a single public movement in the world, which was drivenonly to protect the corruption of a family.
Offering his specially designed Container truck for the long sit-in beforethe Parliament House, Imran Khan said the Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf launchedits movement against the electoral rigging and later went in for protest onthe Panama Papers issue.
To a question about the ongoing cases by the National AccountabilityBureau, he said his government has nothing to do with initiating the casesof money laundering against the Pakistan People’s Party leadership.
He said these were initiated in 2016 by the Pakistan Muslim League-Ngovernment.
He said he wanted the NAB to target the top men involved in corruptionrather than singling out the corrupt at the lowest tier.
The Prime Minister said you can only eradicate corruption when you get tothe men at the top.
When asked whether the former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif would beallowed medical treatment abroad, Imran Khan asked under which law can hebe allowed to proceed abroad.
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He said hundreds and thousands of prisoners are already in various jailsand there has to be justice.
Imran Khan said his government would be launching country’s largestcomprehensive poverty alleviation project on Wednesday.
He said with the input from China, he is looking forward to undertakingmeasures to fight country’s rampant poverty.
Regarding the role of Opposition in the parliament, Imran Khan regrettedthat they were not taking democracy seriously.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was flanked by Information Minister Ch.Fawad Hussain, Finance Minister Asad Umer, Nadeem Babar Chairman Task Forceon Energy Sector Reforms said the government has undertaken a number ofmeasures to revive the economy and specific steps are being taken to cutdown the circular debt in the energy sector.
