LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Friday faced some heated conversations when opposition members started protesting over written-off loans issue.
An opposition leader’s adjournment motion submission over the issue began the debate in today’s session. Opposition members got enraged and tore off the copies of the agenda and surrounded the dais of the Speaker.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, during the session, said that the Bank of Punjab has not written off loans and only waived off interest rate. Later on, he provincial law minister spoke to media outside the Punjab Assembly. He said that some amount was written off from the actual amount in only two cases.
“Imran’s ATMs have waived off loans worth millions of rupees,” Sanaullah said. He said that the PTI allegations regarding the matter are being investigated, adding that bank didn’t write off loans and only waived off interest rate in some cases. No one from the Sharif family was among those, he added.
He said that principal amount of those have been waived off who had been on the verge of bankruptcy. Earlier in November, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had submitted documents against the Sharif family in the Panama Leaks case in the Supreme Court.
