Jamaat-e-Islami Acting Ameer Liaqat Baloch has said if the prime minister and his family were subjected to a real accountability, all those named in the Panama Leaks, Dubai Leaks, London Leaks besides those getting heavy bank loans written off would also have to face ‘Ehtisab’.
Speaking at an Iftar dinner here on Sunday, he however said that the appearance of the prime minister before the investigating team with all his full powers in spite of facing serious charges was a joke and the negation of democracy and the rule of law.
He said that the press conferences of the team of ministers and their threats to the JIT members could lead the homeland into anarchy. However, he said that process of accountability had already started and the nation would not allow anyone to obstruct that.
Liaqat Baloch said that in real democracies, whenever a president, a prime minister or a minister faced any allegation of moral or financial corruption, he immediately resigned and offered himself for enquiry. However, the Pakistani rulers who made tall claims of democracy and rule of law, had never stepped down to allow an independent probe.
He said that the statements of the ministers against the JIT proved that the rulers did not want to pass through the process of accountability and were making every effort to flee accountability by making the JIT controversial.
Liaqat Baloch said the JI had been demanding that the prime minister should resign before facing enquiry so that he could not influence the enquiry because of his high office. In that case, the image of the premier and also the country would have been raised in the comity of the nations. With that, the process of accountability would also have won public confidence and the supremacy of the law and the judiciary would have been established. However, he said, the prime minister did not give any weight to these points.
As a result, doubts were arising in regard to the accountability of the corrupt elite, the supremacy of law and constitution. He said that the statements of the ministers of not accepting the court decision were most condemnable.
