Only Aleema Khan received NRO: Khawaja Asif

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— Alleges govt has ‘only printed notes’ yet 

— Asserts Opp can ‘paralyze country’ too

— Claims foreign policy is ‘in wrong direction’

SIALKOT: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Asif on Sunday said that only Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan has been given a National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in this country.

On Saturday, the prime minister categorically ruled out an NRO-like deal for the opposition leaders, particularly former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif and former president Asif Ali Zardari, underscoring the need for across-the-board accountability. The PM had said his government has had enough with the opposition and won’t make any more compromises for the sake of parliament.

The PML-N leader was talking to journalists at his residence in Sialkot as he said that the prime minister seems worried about losing his position when political leaders should always be ready for elections.

He asserted that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is not acting in its own best interests and “is not letting bureaucracy work”. In the last six months, it has only boarded up old plans, he said.

Asif claimed that there is a danger to the system, and the opposition has reservations over it. He asserted that they want the system to be functional as the incumbent government is only printing notes and has printed Rs1.4 trillion as of yet.

Alleging that Khan has to yet fulfil his statements that he has been making for 22 years, the former defence minister claimed that PM’s economic advisors are abandoning him.

He added that for the first time, a PM is going to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) himself even though he had claimed that “it is better to commit suicide than seek an IMF bailout”.

Speaking of the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee, Asif said that removing former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif from the position would only make matters worse as the opposition doesn’t want to “climb on containers even though it has the capacity to disrupt affairs of the country”.

Criticising the PTI government’s foreign policy, he said it was not in the right direction either.