In yet another startling revelation of corruption scandals, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan Wednesday claimed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is a defaulter of Rs 91 million of Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP). Addressing his sit-in protesters against the government at D-Chowk, he claimed the there are four sugar mills, of which two are owned by prime minister while the other two belong to his close associates, and the accumulative default of all the four sugar mills is Rs 281 million.
Quoting an inquiry report conducted by the government in 2005-06, Imran said that Sharif family had Rs 3.2 billion investment in Europe alone, which was done with the help of one Robert Harsh through money laundering. Terming his anti-government sit-in a jihad against the corrupt mafias led by Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari - the heads of two major political parties, PML-N and PPP, ruling the country for the last three decades. He reiterated there was no looking back till Nawaz Sharif's resignation.
He said that both PPP and PML-N level allegation of massive corruption against each other and that too on the floor of parliament which they declare as sacred, but none of them are ready to go for action against each other. He recalled that the recent brawl between interior minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan and Senator Aitazaz Ahsan is one glaring example how tactfully they hide each others corruptions.
"Nisar made serious allegations against Aitzaz that his wife Bushra Aitzaz was awarded the LPG quota in a non-transparent manner and in retaliation he [Aitzaz] accused him of making money through patwaris...both are very serious allegations and if this had happened in any civilised country, both could have been behind bars," he regretted.
He criticised Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan for his failure to respond to the allegations levelled against him by Aitzaz Ahsan just for the sake of democracy instead of proving his innocence, adding it had nothing to do with democracy rather it is called 'mukmuka or wheeling-dealing'. Declaring Ahsan Iqbal, minister for planning, development and reforms as pseudo intellectual, Imran drubbed him for blaming the PTI of causing Rs 1 billion losses to national kitty by staging sit-ins. "What we are doing is a peaceful protest for our democratic rights. I simply can not understand why this government is unable to realise its own fault. It failed to implement a judicial commission report on floods in 2010, which resulted in devastating floods in the province again", he questioned.
IMRAN DOESN'T PAY ELECTRICITY BILL IN AUGUST Reiterating his call for civil disobedience, he said there is a propaganda going on against him by his opponents to mislead people, saying he paid his electricity bill for August. "Let me make it clear that I did not pay my electricity bills for the month of August," he declared.
He called upon the people not to pay their utility bills until Nawaz Sharif calls it a day. "I urge you not to pay electricity bills, as the corrupt rulers will raise the prices of electricity after six months if you did not ask them for rampant increase in power tariff," he maintained.
He decided to mark one month of 'Azadi March' sit-in protest on September (Saturday) 13 by observing 'One Nation Day' on September 13. He called upon people belonging to all walks of life throughout the country to ensure their participation on Saturday. The PTI chairman said that the nation will tell the 'corrupt rulers' that you are no more required as people have decided to snatch their rights, adding 'do come on Saturday and say with one voice: "Go Nawaz Go, Go Nawaz Go" and celebrate the creation of new Pakistan.
DR TAHIRUL QADRI Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri Wednesday said that due to the flawed economic polices of the government, the country is at the brink of economic disaster. He said that 70 percent of parliamentarians were thieves and tax evaders. "We will close the doors of parliament for all such people," Qadri said, adding borrowing should be from direct public consent and not secretive. "We want a transparent mechanism after 'revolution".
Qadri further said that he would give the country an alternative economic policy where the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and other financial institutions would be made free from the clutches of the government. He further said that the constitution is no longer in force and we have come to 'revive' it. The emotions of the parliamentarians for the people of the country are all fake. "We are being taught a revolution can only take place through the votes, constitution and the parliament, but the truth is that the constitution is no more in force and the parliament has failed to deliver," he lamented.