Ruthless accountability

Prime Minister Imran Khan came in power with a promise that he will eradicate the menace of corruption in country and will not forgive corrupt politicians, will bring them to the justice and will recover the looted money from them, (“I will quit but won’t give amnesty to opposition leaders, says Imran,” Dec.7, Gulf Today).

The founder of Pakistan Muslim League (N) and three-time prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, is now certified corrupt and fugitive person, who is convicted by the top court, Supreme Court of Pakistan. Instead of serving his sentence in the Pakistani jail, he ran away from Pakistan on a medical ground using corrupt institutions in his favour. He made those institutions corrupt in his era.

Nawaz Sharif made billions of dollars’ properties in Pakistan and abroad, but he doesn’t have a money trail of it. He was a prime minister, the future of poor people of Pakistan was in his hands, and instead of making vulnerable peoples’ lives better he misused the public money with his corrupt gang and made huge properties in the country and abroad.

Now, there is no room for corruption in Pakistan. People of Pakistan will not even spare Imran Khan if he allows the corrupt mafia to come back in power again. Imran Khan has to fulfill his promise he made with the masses when he was campaigning in last general elections.

People made Imran Khan prime minister to do ruthless accountability and bring corrupt people back in Pakistan and recover looted money from them. In his last interview, Imran said the opposition parties have been blackmailing the government since day one to grant them amnesty. He said that the NRO given to the opposition by former military ruler (retd) Gen Pervez Musharraf had had disastrous effects on Pakistan, leading to an increase in debt liabilities.

Imran Khan has no other option than a ruthless accountability across the board in the country.

Shoukat Siddiqi
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