Pakistan Muslim League-Q leadership is seriously considering to move a reference in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the misuse of the national exchequer by the Pakistan Peoples Party on its party affairs like private trips abroad.
Sources in the PML-Q have confirmed the development and said that the party is working on the issue and gathering facts to substantiate its case and would submit it to NAB for an appropriate action against the illegal and illogical use of the national resources.
"On one hand, the country is facing crises like law and order, unprecedented increase in fuel prices, unemployment and poverty and on the other hand, people who meant responsible are enjoying in Dubai and London using national resources", the sources added.
Being on high opposition, the sources said, the party would not allow more such extravagance using national resources by the government functionaries and would block such moves though legal means. Marvi Memon, a vibrant lady parliamentarian from PML-Q claimed that the party leadership is considering tough initiative to protect the national resources.
PML leadership considers it an illogical act that party meetings are held in Dubai and London and ministers are flying there on the government expenses. The common phrase within the opposition has now become that here is a "dysfunctional coalition government in exile", she added. If someone has taken the responsibility to lead the party or the nation he should stay within the country and get the day-to-day issues resolved, which are badly affecting the masses, Marvi asserted.
These people, she said, previously use to blame the then government for not allowing them to return to the country and now they again put themselves in the self-exile without any logic. She also said that in fact many foreign diplomats have also commented on this strange practice of the government. Not only this, she added, even party meetings are being convened in Dubai and London and ministers go there by using official resources.
There doesn't seem to be any reasonable explanation for the Prime Minister of diverting his flight along with a large entourage to Dubai from an official visit to Malaysia, costing millions of rupees to the national exchequer, she said, adding the Prime Minister himself admitted this at a talk-show that he flew to Dubai to see the children of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto amongst other things.
Presently, Marvi said, the country is facing serious security crisis and it has become a routine matter that law Minister Farooqh Naek and Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik go abroad on official expenses frequently for party consultations with their leadership on party affairs.
She alleged that the practical and visible output of the government is totally against what it promised to the people prior to the elections as the prices, poverty and unemployment increased manifold due to the indifferent attitude of the rulers. And none of the promises made in the 100-day plan have been met by the government, she underlined.
Being opposition party, we are representing the public and it is our responsibility to protect the interests of masses in and outside the Parliament and the PML party leadership is considering to move a reference to the NAB to stop this new method of plundering national wealth.