LAHORE, April 18:Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party and former chief Minister Punjab has said that the shocking revelations about offshore businesses of the Prime Minister’s family now exposed in front of the nation and there is no need of further evidences and authentication in this regard.
He has told that he has advised PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to set up his team immediately consisting of youth for success in 2018 general elections and focus on staying maximum in Punjab rather than just visiting.
“I have advised Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in party meetings to restore the real power of the party by strongly opposing the PMLN government’s anti-people policies. He has vowed that the blood of the martyrs of the PPP would not go waste and the party would always stand against the anti-people policies of the government.
He added Punjab Government has been failed to eliminate Choto Gang for seven years, and the gang has exposed and stamped on the false claims of its good governance.
While talking to the media at the farewell party here today, Mian Manzoor Wattoo has said that the issue of offshore companies reportedly owned by the children of the prime minister is not an ordinary matter, and the whole nation has stood up against the corruption of the ruling party after the disclosure of written agreements and declaration of confessional statements in relation to the offshore investments.
He added that the party is standing with the nation on this issue and we are in contact with other political parties as well. He further added that the PPP would make a joint strategy with opposition parties and would protest in and outside parliament within constitutional limits against offshore investments of the rulers.
Wattoo has said that government’s all schemes have failed and now its corruption is not hidden and exposed in front of the nation. The rulers need to respond the corruption charges and tell the nation truth about their offshore businesses, he demanded.
He has urged PM to declare his personal and family assets within the country and overseas, like he had done it, by saying that the of assets of his children abroad is a big question mark, as the Panama Leaks have exposed Sharif family’s offshore business and investments.
He questioned how Nawaz Sharif’s children in 1990 when they were only 13 or 14 years old got too much money, and how they transferred it abroad? He said no interpretation would be helpful to prove them innocent after Panama Leaks. He further said Government has failed to transfer fruits of democracy to masses, and now nation is not ready to give further sacrifices, and this time rulers need to give sacrifice.
He has rejected the Judicial Commission announced by PM Nawaz Sharif to investigate the allegations against him and his family in the Panama Leaks by terming it as a farce and eyewash. -Online
