Cases against Zardari: Fawad hopes PML-N will cooperate with NAB

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Monday none of the cases against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari were registered during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

Talking to media persons here, he said most of the cases against Zardari — including those related to money laundering — were filed during Nawaz Sharif’s regime, adding investigation of the cases was also done during the previous government.

He expressed the hope that as far as those cases were concerned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) would cooperate with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). He also said he was seeing Zardari’s future in jail.

To a question, the minister said there was no plan to change the name of Benazir Income Support Programme or close it, rather a new programme Ehsas (compassion) had been launched for poverty alleviation and its scope was being expanded. He said unemployed youths would be given loans, homeless people would be provided with shelter, and financially weak people would be given financial assistance under the programme. Moreover, he added, assistance would also be provided to businesses.

To another question, he said the country imported petroleum products and their prices were linked with international market that was why the recent prices were showing upward trend.