LAHORE – PML-N Deputy Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has welcomed replacement of ISI DG Ahmad Shuja Pasha with Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam saying that it was as per the stand of his party which demanded a regular general to be appointed to this office.
“We don’t have differences with anyone on the appointment of the new DG but our party wants that anyone getting to that office should be a thorough professional capable of discharging his duties in the best interest of the nation,” said Ahsan Iqbal while talking to this scribe.
To a question whether replacement of Pasha will be good or bad for the memogate case, he said his party did not go to SC against any individual as such replacement of Pasha was meaningless on this count. The PML-N, he said, went to the SC to seek proper investigations into the scam so that facts and real faces behind the memo could be unveiled.
Replying to another question, Iqbal said the situation was critical and therefore sooner the elections were held the better it would be for the country and the nation.
Oppressed by widespread and huge corruption at the head of bad governance by the PPP, economy of the country has reached to a shambles and the masses want urgent election in the country as a way-out of this predicament, he said adding, his party was quite ready to enter general elections anytime.
Meanwhile, Ahsan Iqbal expressed serious concern over the suspension of the PIA certification for the European flights whereof, he said, not only the country would get a bad name at the international level but the heavy financial loss will also come to the Airline. In a statement, he blamed the ‘Zardari government’ for failing every department and institution through corruption, favouritism, and incompetence. “The annual losses coming to the national kitty through this institutions, is over Rs 350 billion,” he said while strongly decrying over the reported appointment of PPP Parliamentarian to the office of Chairman Pakistan Steel Mill Board.
The PML-N leader also shown grave concern over the appointment of as many as 350 persons at the high positions in the SNGPL on political basis. He said his party was not opposed to giving jobs to the people but it held the stand that merit must be followed in that process so that deserving people did not suffer.