Govt must end corruption: Ahsan Iqbal

LAHORE: The PML-N Central Spokesman Ahsan Iqbaq has stressed upon the PPP-led federal government to take effective measures to eliminate corruption in the country.

In a media briefing here Monday, he said, the government should establish an Accountability Commission as envisaged in the Charter of Democracy, for which Accountability Bill be presented in the National Assembly for passage without any delay.

Ahsan Iqbal mentioned that PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif had also written a letter to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and pointed out a number of issues including Rs 300 billion financial losses of government's major corporations (PIA, PSO,TCP, NIC, Pakistan Steel Mills, Railways) water and energy crises, poverty, unemployment, corruption and price-hike as well as suggested him ways and means for their addressal.

He criticised the government for not taking its coalition partners into confidence on the matters pertaining to RGST, Karry Lugar Bill, parliamentary committee on judges' appointment etc.

The PML-N spokesman said they had joined the PPP-led government after having an agreement, which was according to him, was not fulfilled and they parted ways with the government. Now, the MQM, ANP, JUI-F must apprise the nation why they had joined the government, he said, citing, if the coalition partners fail to give their point of view, the PML-N would equally blame them for corruption of the government.