Absconder’s palace opened for its real owners: Firdous

Ag APP

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to PM on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Saturday said that an absconder sitting in London was making fun of Pakistan’s laws, whose palace, had been opened for those, who were its real owners.

Speaking here at a function on real estate sector, she said that the government’s rivals were engaged in resorting to propaganda against the government and had nothing to do with the difficulties of the common man. She pointed out that an absconder’s residence in Lahore had been opened for the deserving. “The real owners are now inside the residence, which was made with public money. After its opening, the common man has got the opportunity to live in a five-star house,” she alleged.

Dr Firdous maintained in Naya Pakistan, the law was free and the courts were functioning independently and freely and were not acting on someone’s wishes. She claimed that for the first time, Prime Minister Imran Khan had subjected the powerful to accountability and now the masses were the real rulers. “Those days are not far, when people will have access to other palaces,” she noted.

Prime Minister Imran Khan, she recalled, had promised that he would protect rights of masses. “Our endeavour is that the construction sector is able stand on its own feet. The government is focusing on the business sector and on the directions of prime minister, special measures are being taken in real estate sector,” she emphasised. She pointed out that in Naya Pakistan, one could loot someone and in order to checking fraud, the government had evolved a regulatory mechanism for real estate sector. She regretted that in the past, rulers filled their pockets in the name of developmental projects.

About the much talked about promise of PTI to provide affordable houses to low-income groups, she said that the government was trying to provide 5 million houses to people during its tenure, as it was the government’s priority to provide shelter to people. In the past, she claimed that through loot and plunder, certain mafias become billionaire within no time. She called for payment of taxes, saying these worked like oxygen in a society.

Meanwhile, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday said that a resolution drawing attention towards blatant human rights violations in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir has been delivered to the office of the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG).

The resolution was submitted to the UN Resident Coordinator in Pakistan, Julien Harneis on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day by the people of Pakistan, she said in a statement.

She thanked UN Resident Coordinator Julien Harneis to convey the voice of innocent Kashmiris to the world’s biggest form. She said the government has fulfilled another commitment made to the nation and the Kashmiri people about raising their voice at all international fora.

She said the government had also initiated ‘Digital Pakistan’ to introduce use of latest technologies in public and private sectors which was also providing help in regulating the state sector.

The special assistant pointed out that the some developers at the expo had requested her to soften the reforms in the sector so that it could attract more investments. “No country can progress without tax as it works as oxygen for the economy of any state,” Dr Firdous said, responding to the grievances of some developers about the reforms in housing sector.