Daily Times

LAHORE: Legislators of the opposition parties in Punjab Assembly have rejected the Mission to Eradicate NAB by the ruling Nawaz League in using parliament despite of its two-third majority in the Lower House.

The opposition members while reacting over the recent statement of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and the press conference of disqualified premier Nawaz Sharif said that their parties would not allow the rulers to use the parliament as a weapon against the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that is working in its domain to eradicate corruption from the country.

The main opposition party-Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)-backed opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, legislators Murad Rass, Sadia Sohail Rana, Dr Nosheen Hamid and Senator Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar on Thursday said that their party would not let the ruling Nawaz League to use parliament as weapon against NAB and the rulers’ Mission to Eradicate NAB would not succeed.

They were of the view that the ruling Nawaz League wanted success in its ulterior designs especially stamping out the institution of NAB which is investigating corruption cases against the rulers but PTI would not let them to do so in any case.

PTI legislators and the senator expressed surprised over the prime minister’s recent statement against the NAB saying that instead of getting answers of corruption from the corrupt elements which are involved in the money laundering, he wanted to use parliament against the NAB chairman.

Second largest opposition party in Punjab Assembly-the Pakistan People’s Party legislators including Qazi Ahmad Saeed and Faiza Malik said that their party would not allow anyone to use parliament against NAB on the basis of number of seats in the National Assembly especially when the said state institute was holding inquiries against the graft cases of Sharif family.

They said that democracy would only be strengthened in the country if politicians will serve nation instead of fulfilling their own pockets and sending national exchequer abroad through illegal ways. They said that sitting rulers had done nothing for masses.

Published in Daily Times, May 11^th 2018.