NAB body aims to protect influential people: JI

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Ameer Hafiz Muhammad Idrees said the main objective of the Parliamentary Commission on NAB’s functioning would be to protect some influential people from the clutches of accountability.

Corruption has gone deep into the society and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had himself admitted that an amount of 200 billion dollars owned by the Pakistani ruling elite was lying in foreign banks, he said this while delivering a Friday sermon at Mansoora mosque.

Hafiz Idrees said obviously this money had been deposited in the names of politicians who had been in power besides bureaucrats. Fortunately, he said none of the JI men was on this list, although scores of the JI men had also been in the assemblies.

He said Karachi had JI men as Lord Mayors for three times who had billions at his disposal but none of them had been involved in corruption.

He said during Mian Nawaz Sharif’s first term as prime minister, valuable residential plots were allotted to members of parliament at throwaway prices, but the JI legislators had refused this offer.

He said all types of crimes were rampant in the country and a drive against corruption was the need of hour.

He said if the nation woke up well on time and joined the JI campaign against corruption, the lot of the poor would also ameliorate.