Loans written off by commercial banks: PML-N asks government to make public names of politicians

Following the release of the list of beneficiaries of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that led to increase in country's political temperature, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Monday urged the government to make public names of those politicians, who got their loans written off by the commercial banks. This demand was raised at a meeting of the PML-N held with its Quaid Nawaz Sharif in the chair.
Among others, the meeting was attended by Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, Syed Ghous Ali Shah, Senator Ishaq Dar, Khwaja Mohammad Asif, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Ahsan Iqbal, Sardar Yaqoob Nasir, Chaudhry Jaffer Iqbal and Khwaja Saad Rafiq.
The meeting was convened by the party Quaid to discuss re-organisational affairs and the country's political situation arising out as a result of release of list of NRO beneficiaries. Sources in the PML-N told Business Recorder that the meeting also discussed various proposals for the re-organisation of the party across the country at grassroots level.
The meeting deliberated in detail on current political situation emerged in the backdrop of issuance of NRO beneficiaries' list. It also discussed proposals for launching countrywide PML-N membership campaign, especially in Sindh province. Former Sindh chief minister Syed Ghous Ali Shah presented a detailed report to organised the party in an effective manner in Sindh, the sources said.
Briefing the newsmen after hours-long meeting of party's central leadership, PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal said that President Asif Ali Zardari should decide his future at his own after the inclusion of his name in the list of NRO beneficiaries. He asked the Federal ministers and other senior officers, who benefited from the NRO to resign from their offices.
The PML-N also demanded of the government to unveil the list of those politicians, who got their bank loans written off, he said. Ahsan Iqbal was of the view that the NRO beneficiaries must step down from their offices voluntarily to face the cases in courts.
"The NRO beneficiaries, including the Federal ministers, must present themselves for accountability," he added. He said that the PML-N was struggling for saving the democratic system and would play its due role in this regard. The PML-N leader said that his party's MNA Rana Nazir would also face the case before the court.
To a query, he asked the government to defend itself in the media and before the nation on the basis of its one-and-half-year's long progress. On the occasion, the PML-N Balochistan leader Sardar Yaqoob Nasir urged the government to pay attention to resolve problems being faced by the people of Balochistan and also expedite developmental work in the province.