No one would be given an NRO: Fawad
The information minister paid tribute to the valiant Kashmiris for their freedom struggle
JHELUM (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday ruled out any compromise on accountability as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) voted to power for getting back the stolen national wealth from the looters and plunderers.
Addressing a ceremony in Jhelum on Saturday, he declared former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former president Asif Zardari and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman as the group of plunderers.
The minister said that no one would be given an NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) as reiterated by Prime Minister Imran Khan because it was the government’s responsibility to bring all those involved in corruption to justice.
He said the total loan taken by Pakistan from its creation till 2008 was Rs6,000 billion, which swelled to Rs30,000 billion till date as Rs24,000 billion more was added during the regimes of Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif from 2008 to 2018.
Fawad Chaudhry said unlike the past rulers, PM Imran Khan would spend each and every penny of the loan on the welfare of children of the poor people and not his own children.
The opposition parties, he said, were crying hoarse that democracy was in danger only because their own political future was at stake. They had no leadership and no agenda for the country’s betterment of the country. They had realized that the political journey of Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari and Fazlur Rehman was now over, he added.
The information minister paid tribute to the valiant Kashmiris for their freedom struggle, saying their sacrifices would bear fruit and the day was not far off when they would get rid of the Indian subjugation. The entire Pakistani nation stood by the Kashmiri brethren and would continue to support them till realization of their goal of freedom, he added.
Taking a dig at Fazlur Rehman, he said the JUI-F remained chairman of the Kashmir Committee of the Parliament for the last two decades but he had never issued a statement on the Kashmir dispute. Similarly, he said, Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari always avoided to talk about the Kashmir issue to please the Indian rulers.
The minister said first an Israeli journalist tweeted the fake news about the aircraft, which was retweeted by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Ahsan Iqbal and then a couple of journalists having clear leanings towards the PML-N joined the fray. It all proved that it was a coordinated plan to discredit the Pakistan government and the armed forces on Kashmir Black Day.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), he said, had already rebutted the news, categorically stating that no Israeli aircraft had entered the Pakistani airspace or landed at any of its airports and the reports in that regard were baseless.
