In his post-budget address on Tuesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced to form a high-level commission to investigate corruption over the last 10 years that led the country into a massive debt trap.
The prime minister who was supposed to address 9:30pm came live on television at midnight for the speech. His speech was interrupted twice due to some apparent technical reasons.
Interestingly, the prime minister speech revolved around corruption allegations against the opposition, sparing only a few moments for the ‘austerity budget’.
The new commission, that will probe the massive debt Pakistan owes to the international money lenders, comprises the Federal Investigation Agency, Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, Inter-Service Intelligence among others.
The prime minister put the blame for economic woes of the country on former governments of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
He explained how the two former governments had been involved in corruption and burdened the country with huge foreign loans.
The prime minister said the two political parties entered into an alliance and kept bringing a chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of their own choice.
“We did not appoint the NAB chairman; Nawaz league and PPP appointed him,” he said, adding, “I did not form cases against opposition [members].”
Khan noted the mega money laundering case against Asif Ali Zardari was registered by the PML-N, adding that the opposition wanted an NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance).
“Today hue and cry is being raised that Zardari is in jail, and Nawaz league and PPP have come together,” he lamented.