KARACHI: Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid on Tuesday said that people who “looted the nation’s money are being billed gentry”.
He made the comment after paying his respect at the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on his 142nd birthday and added that “thieves became the watchmen of the country”.
“Thieves, robbers and plunderers have been brought to book,” the minister said, adding that “those who stole money from the pockets of the entire nation were being billed gentry”.
He said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari may bear the brunt of his father’s politics.
Referring to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s conviction in Al-Azizia reference, Rashid said that he was “jailed for seven years in a weapons case, but Sharif was handed mere seven years in jail despite looting the entire world’s wealth”.
He predicted that the “remaining thieves” will go to jail before March 30, adding that PPP leader and former opposition leader Khursheed Shah’s turn to be held to account will also come.
Those who have plundered the country’s wealth will meet a sticky end, he asserted.
