‘Never faced NAB’s like charges in my political career’

ISLAMABAD: Former chief minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah in his 55-years political carrier did not face such kind of allegations that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) leveled against him like of fake bank accounts case.

“The NAB has leveled the allegation of sale of two sugar mills 15-years back and NAB has handed me a questioners which I had responded to them but the NAB did not give any evidence on allegation leveled against me,” he said while addressing a press conference here Monday along with Secretary General PPP Parliamentarians Farhatullah Babar and Media Coordinator of the PPP Nazir Dhoki.

Qaim Ali Shah said the NAB has targeted only province of Sindh and mostly actions were taken against the provincial government officials and PPP leaders. “I had served at the federal and provincial governments and even Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has also given portfolio in his cabinet but not a single allegations leveled against him.

Ex-chief minister Sindh said the NAB handed him the questioners which he had responded and will defend himself before the NAB and courts of law. “I had asked the NAB to share the evidence against me but instead of it they handed over the questioners,” he said.

In a reply to questions over the deaths of infants in Thar, he said early marriage, pre-term/low birth weight and other reasons are the cause of their deaths. “During my tenure as a chief minister Sindh, roads were constructed, provisions of mobile medical and job opportunities provided in Thar,” he said.

He said the Power Project of 300MW has been inaugurated in Thar and another project of 300MW would be inaugurated soon.

Qaim Ali Shah said after the 18th Amendment and NFC award of 2010, the provinces gets share of 56 percent and federal government 44 percent.

He said four major hospitals were built in which free medical services were provided to the poor and a trauma center was also built in Karachi. “We have also established 4 universities in Karachi and two of them were medical universities,’ He said.

In a reply to a question over the allegations of using money to bring the people for the train march of Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Syed Qaim Ali Shah rejected the allegations, saying these reports were only fabricated. “The people come on the eve of the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in such a hot weather that speaks their love for PPP,” he said.

To another question, he said the flight from Karachi to Islamabad landed in Peshawar and mistakenly his luggage replaced with the other passenger and he came to know it when he had opened the luggage.