KARACHI - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf vice-chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday demanded that the probe into corruption allegations should be started from the Sharif family. Addressing a nation-wide anti-corruption march initiated from Karachi under the tile of Eliminate Corruption, Save the Country, Qureshi said that their march was against the corrupt rulers as they wanted to expose the hands that have looted and plundered the country’s wealth. He said that other opposition parties also supported the principled stance of the PTI as they felt that the government was not sincere in probing the Panama leaks.
“The opposition has rejected the TROs for the proposed judicial commission,” he said adding that since the Panama leaks mentioned the prime minister and his family; therefore, the investigations should also be started from the Sharif family.
He said the government has not given any timeframe for the probe in its letter sent to the Supreme Court chief justice, and it could take months or even years, which shows that the government is not sincere in this probe.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi further said it seems that the government wants to put this important matter on the back burner and is trying to divert attention of the people. However, this is not only the matter of Pakistan but is an international issue; therefore, the government should write a letter to the company behind the Panama leaks if it wanted that the real facts behind this corruption are exposed.
On the occasion, PTI leaders Dr Arif Alvi and Haleem Adil Sheikh also addressed to the masses, inviting them to join the anti-corruption movement.
Meanwhile, PPPP MPAs Khairun Nisa Mughal, Ghazala Sayal and Shamim Mumtaz termed the PTI’s anti-corruption drive as Insafi Theatre Company. They said there are some characters in this Insafi Theatre Company, who have plans to see the genuine PTI workers die of heat while they keep leading them in air-conditioned cars and are blue eyed of a selective section of the local media.
In a statement issued from PPP Media Cell Sindh, the MPAs said that it is the tradition of Imran Niazi to create uproar over a particular situation and then suddenly disappear from the scene. The PTI chairman had in past staged a 120-day long sit-in at Islamabad and raised his demands for Prime Minister’s resignation. However, he preferred to declare his marriage to be the real creation of a new Pakistan and then he returned to his super luxurious residence at Bani Gala while leaving his workers and a mess behind.
Today, when the entire nation is expecting to see investigations with regard to Panama leaks, the Insafi Theatre has changed the directions and started an anti-corruption movement starting from Sindh. The nation is waiting to see if the Insafi Theatre Company would also reach Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa to dig out the corruption or not.
The PPP MPAs advised the script writer of the Insafi Theatre Company to ask the PTI leaders to do the politics of issues and should stop diverting the people’s attention from the internal rifts and battle. They also advised to stop putting lives of the PTI’s workers in jeopardy and if the leaders believe they are serving the nation and the country. They said the PTI leaders should also step out from their air-conditioned cars and march under the scorching sun along with the workers.