Daily Times

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday that his party was in ‘no mood to launch a movement against the government’.

Speaking to the media, he said that PML-N wanted the government face the consequences of its own mistakes. “Our only fault was to build China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),” he said and added that the country would have undergone more development if the PML-N had come into power again. “Many countries were against Pakistan’s progress and a conspiracy was hatched against our government,” he claimed.

The PML-N leader strongly criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan for their pre-election rhetoric of bringing back 200 billion dollars and not going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking of the accountability system, he said that the process became controversial when it was driven by politics and revenge. “We will cooperate with the government if it is serious in introducing a system of accountability which is transparent and beyond political vendetta,” he said.

He called on the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman to take notice of how the government was vilifying his department to achieve its goals. “The chairman will have to face criticism if NAB and its activities become controversial,” he said.

Published in Daily Times, November  11^th 2018.