Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken a firm stand and clarified that legislation related to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is necessary for Pakistan and no NRO will be given in return for legislation in the national interest. According to details, a meeting of the parliamentary party was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran Khan in which he apprised the members of the importance of legislation in Parliament.
Addressing the members, he said that we are correcting the mistakes of the past while the opposition is using the forum of Parliament to save its politics.
Imran Khan said that the opposition has tried to obstruct every legislation. The opposition should support legislation for the national interest. The Prime Minister directed the MPs to give tough time to the opposition and said that they would not be blackmailed. Opposition demands NRO which will not be granted at any cost. PTI will not back down from its manifesto. If we did that, it would be a disaster, he added.
Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday said that it was intolerable and unacceptable to make people take the brunt of mismanagement, theft and corruption in the power sector. Chairing a meeting to review the reforms process in the power sector, the prime minister said the transformation was inevitable for country’s economic stability.
Minister for Energy Omar Ayub, Planning Minister Asad Umar and Special Assistants to Prime Minister Nadeem Babar and Shahzad Qasim attended the meeting.
The prime minister was briefed on the ongoing reforms process, power supply and demand, modernization of transmission system, reforms in gas sector and efforts for resolution of other chronic issues.
