Opp should raise issues of masses instead of protecting their leadership: Murad
He said past rulers have made properties abroad with the country's debt money.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Communication Murad Saeed on Monday said that previous rulers have made properties abroad with the debt money but they [government] is told not to speak out against corruption.
Responding to points raised by the opposition leaders in the National Assembly, he has said that the nation will keep on asking questions about loot and plunder of the past rulers.
The minister said that the PPP and the PML-N should answer for placing the country under unprecedented loan of 24,000 billion rupees in last ten years, Shahbaz Sharif’s TT scandal, and foreign properties of the past rulers.
He said PTI has nothing to do with the protest demonstration at the residence of the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son in London. Condemning the protest, Murad said we neither support nor encourage attacks on the residence of political opponents. “The PML-N will have to answer how former ruling family bought properties in London,” he said.
“Shahbaz Sharif plundered the national wealth in the name of paper companies like Good Nature Company,” he said and added demonstration was organized by some Pakistan Solidarity Front.
Regarding opposition’s objection on issuance of ordinances, Murad Saeed said every democratic government of the past issued 119 ordinances every year, but the PTI government promulgated only 19 ordinances in just 18 months.
Murad Saeed said the opposition should talk about issues pertaining to common man instead of protecting corruption of their leadership.
Murad went on to say that Khawaja Asif should ask his leadership why they couldn’t build a hospital where they could get medical treatment, adding that Nawaz Sharif’s children, Salman Shahbaz and Ishaq Dar have been declared absconders by the courts.
Khawaja Asif should talk about his constituency instead of a family, he added.
