-Says corrupts & dacoits ruled over country for three decades
-Claims past leaders not only did corruption but destroyed morality
-Argues corruption & money laundering plunged the country into heavy debts
-Reaffirms government’s efforts for corruption free Pakistan
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GHAZI BAROTHA: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Friday said that corrupts and dacoits ruled over the country for 30 years.Speaking at a launching ceremony of the Spring Tree Plantation campaign under ten billion tree tsunami in Ghazi Barotha, he said the past leaders not only did corruption but destroyed morality.
“Corruption was not being treated as a bad practice,” he said and added that the money laundering of the past rulers plunged the country into the burden of heavy debts. Money laundering compels countries to run for foreign loans and this ultimately results in losing their credibility.
The premier said that the Sharif family including the accountant and son-in-law are living lavish lives in London.
On Senate polls, he said that markets have been set up ahead of Senate polls for buying and selling of the votes. PM Imran Khan criticised the opposition parties for insisting on the secret balloting for the elections of the upper house of the parliament. “Open balloting will ensure transparency of the elections.”
He asked a senator who reaches the house by spending money will work for the betterment of the masses?
Prime Minister Imran Khan said sadly Pakistan in the list of those 10 countries that are badly affected by climate change.
Billion Tree Tsunami project is aimed at control environmental damage that is being caused by the green gases.
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On the other hand, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail on Friday apprised Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding the registration of a terrorism case against Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh.
According to sources, the governor Sindh also informed Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding how a snake was recovered from the prison cell of the opposition leader.
Imran Ismail said that the IGP Sindh Kaleem Imam was acting in a biased manner against the imprisoned PTI leader and was working at the behest of the Sindh government.
Besides this, the provincial lawmakers of the PTI also met DIG operations Imran Yaqoob and expressed their concern over the presence of a snake inside Haleem Adil Shaikh’s cell.
“How a snake could enter a prison cell in the SIU centre,” they asked and blamed that Haleem Adil Shaikh was being politically victimized.
They demanded of the DIG to launch a probe into the matter and take action against those found guilty of negligence.
It is pertinent to mention here that earlier in the day, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi has sent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, to jail on judicial remand till February 25.
The ATC heard a case related to aerial firing and creating a disturbance in by-elections in Karachi’s PS-88 constituency on February 16.
Haleem Adil Sheikh and other accused have been produced before the court by jail officials today.
On February 16, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, has been arrested by police for violating the orders of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) amid the voting process during PS-88 by-polls.
