Opposition leader in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan has strongly criticized the increase in POL prices and said a resolution would be tabled in the National Assembly in this connection.
Talking to reporters, he said if the PML-Q, ANP and MQM were sincere in reducing the difficulties of the people, they must support the resolution. Nisar said instead of giving relief to the people, the government was bent on sucking every drop of their blood. He called the increase in POL prices unjustified, accusing the ruling party of feeling pleasure in giving pains to the people.
Nisar said the increase in POL prices was “Jagga Tax” and it had no relevance with international prices and the government only wanted to generate additional revenue. He said the MQM, ANP and PML-Q, who raised a hue and cry for the people, would be tested through the resolution moved by the PML-N.
“If these parties agree to support the opposition, they will succeed in giving relief to the people,” he added. Nisar said the nation had given lot of respect to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan and he should avoid giving statements which were contrary to facts.
He said his negative statements would not damage any politician but would have great repercussions for Pakistan. Nisar said the PML-N had started contacts with opposition for the caretaker setup, because when the assembly was dissolved, the caretaker PM had to be decided within three days by the prime minister and leader of the opposition.
He hoped that two names would be short listed that would have consensus of all opposition parties for the slot of prime minister. He said a message for the caretaker PM was sent to Imran Khan through a member of Shaukat Khanum Hospital board of directors.
Nisar said the PTI leader rejected the PML-N’s proposed names and gave two other names.
He said Imran’s statement that the PTI was not consulted was surprising.
A loan of Rs3 billion against the Sharif brothers remains outstanding despite a lapse of about ten years when the physical assets of four industrial units Ittefaq Foundries, Brothers Steel, Ittefaq Brothers and Ilyas Enterprises were surrendered to nine lending banks, who haven’t got a penny back since 1998. The Sharif brothers were lauded in the national press in 1998 for surrendering their physical assets to nine banks but in actual terms, these banks did not get a single penny back after one of their (Sharif’s) own directors moved the court and got a stay order against selling of these assets. The stay order in favour of Ittefaq Brothers remains effective till date. Meanwhile, the representatives and legal experts of these nine banks are said to have recently met at Lahore to decide a new course of action to recover the loans from the Sharif brothers who have been shown as “defaulters” of the banks. The National Bank of Pakistan is the worst affected bank with a stuck up loan of Rs1.5 billion. Earlier, in his capacity as Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif in a highly charged televised address to the nation, had announced to surrender all the physical assets of Itefaq Foundries, Brothers Steels, Ittefaq Brothers and Ilyas Enterprises to the nine banks, whom the Sharifs reportedly owed Rs3.09billion. The process of selling the Ittefaq Foundries was stopped when one of the relatives of Sharif Brothers moved an application in the Lahore High Court in 2005 and the matter is still pending with the courts without any payment to the concerned banks. This is just a glimpse of corruption by Sharif brothers, if I go in details, a brief book could be written. In true sense it is pot calling the kettle black. Mian Sahib first return the money of embezzlement and corruption.
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