- Ch Nisar says Govt neither annoyed with nor afraid of NAB
TAXILA/ ISLAMABAD, February 21: Federal Minister for Information, Senator Pervaiz Rashid Sunday reiterated that the ‘government has no intention to clip any institution’s wings but in case someone’s nails grow in size they have to be filed’.
“Besides NAB, the Prime Minister also took names of other institutions. Government’s reservations are not confined to any specific institution,” the Information Minister said while talking to media persons here on the occasion of Orange Festival.
He said this is democracy and Prime Minister made the statement in public. On the contrary, he added, decisions are made behind closed doors in dictatorship.
He said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan keeps backing away from his statements. “First he (Imran Khan) called the Chairman NAB a ‘Muk Mukka Chairman’ and now he is expressing sympathies for the same person,” he added.
The PML-N stalwart said no sooner than the government inked the agreement with Qatar for LNG import, unnecessary criticism began against the deal.
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday the government has no plan to clip the powers of National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Addressing a news conference here, he said ‘the government is neither annoyed with nor afraid of it’. He recalled that the NAB institution was, in fact, constituted by military dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership.
Chaudhry Nisar said both Musharraf and former President Asif Ali Zardari used NAB for thirteen years against PML-N leaders, but could not find anything wrong. “So when the hostile governments could not prove any irregularity against PML-N leadership, how can they be scared now,” he added.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan reiterated his offer to Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for judicial scrutiny of FIA investigations into seven or eight mega corruption scandals of PPP era. He said the previous government was the only regime in the world, which made huge corruption even in Hajj money.
He said EOBI, PSO, Abandoned Properties Evacuee Trust, New Islamabad Airport, PIA, and other major scams emerged during the previous government of PPP.-Agencies
