No NRO with anyone: Fawad

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Tuesday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would not strike any National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) with anyone.The government was not making any deal with the opposition, he said while speaking in a private news channel programme. The minister said being an accused Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif should not be given the chairmanship of Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

He said the current challenges being faced by the PTI government were because the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), which had unfortunately been ruling the country for the last 30 years.

The opposition since the day one was trying to prevent the National Assembly to do its job, he added.

As regards putting the names of PPP and PML-N leaders on the ECL, he said the decision was taken by the cabinet on the request of FIA, NAB and the Joint Investigation Team (JIT).