Punjab Minister for Information and Culture, Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan has urged the legislators to maintain honour and decorum of the parliament, for which they are bound legally and constitutionally. Talking to newsmen outside the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday, the minister deplored that the Pakistan Muslim League (N) legislators were not attending the session for last four days but marking their attendance just to claim the allowances. The opposition MPAs, he added, just wanted to claim allowances and other financial benefits but was not fulfilling their constitutional responsibility.
Commenting on the recent contacts made by MMA chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman with the opposition leaders, including Asif Zardari, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Chohan observed that Maulana had always exploited the 1973 constitution to hide his corruption and nepotism.
Rebutting the opposition's charge of victimization, the minister said that only those politicians who had been involved in rampant corruption, money laundering and misuse of authority were crying. Otherwise, he said, the judiciary, and the anti-corruption agencies were acting independently. "Whenever the law tightens noose around these corrupt politicians, they get united in a bid to protect the looted money. "I want to make it clear that the ongoing accountability process will continue what may come because the people of Pakistan have given a mandate to Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar for accountability", he maintained. "We have to recover the looted amount and deposit it back into the national exchequer", he went on to say.