Abbasi dares PM to remove corrupt ministers

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Monday said corrupt ministers were sitting in the government and dared Prime Minister Imran Khan to remove them.

Talking to the media outside the accountability court here, Abbasi said a case pertaining to the appointment of PSO managing director had been in the court for the last two years but the accountability watchdog failed to prove any wrongdoing.

He asked the media persons to read the judgments of the Lahore High Court and Islamabad High Court to reach the truth.

He said fabricated cases were lodged against them adding that the ministers who were boasting that they will caught the opposition leaders were now hiding their faces and making statements to clear their positions.

The former prime minister asked how many corrupt ministers were removed when their names appeared in the corruption cases. He dared the prime minister to remove them.

Abbasi said he was not afraid of the NAB adding that if the NAB chief had read the judgments of Lahore and Islamabad high courts, then he would be ashamed.

He said the Islamabad High Court had given a detailed judgment on his bail application, adding that the court termed the case against him unsubstantiated.

Abbasi rued that now the government people were clearing their positions and telling the nation about his corruption for the last three years but their assertions were all lies.

Abbasi said the courts had given three judgments in a week and all believed the NAB cases. He cautioned that if the NAB continued to act like that, nobody would work in Pakistan. He stated they could not make a single case of corruption against the PMLN supreme leader Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. He asked who was responsible for power loadshedding in the country. He asked the NAB chief whom he was showing his loyalty to and who was he slave to.

“Who is involved in the scandals of sugar and wheat,” he further asked.

On Prime Minister Imran Khan skipping the recent National Security Committee meeting, he opined that everyone should participate in the huddle.

On the forthcoming Azad Jammu and Kashmir general election, Abbasi emphasized transparent elections.

“If we could not hold a fair election in AJK, then everything would be rubbish.

“Who conducts elections in our country?” he remarked.

He said it was good if elections were held promptly. But they should be fair, he added.