ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday called for opening of a probe into multi-billion rupees alleged corruption in metro and orange train projects.
In a Twitter message, Kaptaan said like the Panama Papers exposed Nawaz and his family’s corruption, the Chinese have exposed Multan metro fraud directly implicating Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
“Now NAB must investigate all Metro & Orange Train projects, which were clearly not undertaken for the public good but for massive kickbacks,” he alleged.
Earlier, rejecting allegations regarding transfer of $17 million to China, Shehbaz said that his detractors could not break his resolve to serve with their false allegations and baseless accusations.
Shehbaz said there was no truth in the transfer of $17 million to China, adding that a private television channel had hatched propaganda against him.
Shehbaz said the alleged company Capital Engineering did not exist at all and it was a poor attempt to defame and undermine his achievements as a ‘Khadim’ of the people of Punjab.
He presented himself for ruthless accountability if misappropriation of a single penny was proven against him, adding that the allegations were levelled by those who were involved in writing off loans worth billions of rupees.
Separately, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq pressed NAB to stop its business if it could not punish the corrupt.
Talking to different delegations in Mansoora on Wednesday, he said that NAB had major role in the promotion of corruption. He wondered which law empowered NAB to free those plundering trillions after recovering only a few millions.
Siraj said that if the courts did not start dispensing justice, the democratic system could not be strengthened.
The JI chief condemned the statement of the French President linking Islam with
terrorism, and termed it an attempt to defame Islam. He said that the Muslim world was also against terrorism like the French President and the Muslims were the greatest sufferers of terrorism.
Published in Daily Times, August 31st 2017.
