Nawaz-Zardari partnership burdened nation with huge debt: Imran

MANDI BAHAUDDIN: The Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Sunday said that Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are responsible for burdening the nation with a huge debt. 

"They are not politicians, they are mafias who have looted the nation in the past thirty years," Imran lashed out at the PPP and PML-N leadership. 

"Enemies are not capable of harming the nation the way this mafia has." 

Addressing a rally in Mandi Bahauddin, the PTI leader said the nation is being pushed into poverty, due to the debt and inflation that has been brought upon the country's economy and nation by the "mafia."

"The corruption mafia is looting the country," he insisted, adding that unfathomable amount of deep-rooted corruption exists even in the process of collecting taxes.

 

Imran further said only the common man is paying taxes, while the elite of the country, including Zardari, elude authorities.

"I will catch the influential crooks by introducing reforms in the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) and National Accountability Bureau (NAB)," he said. "And once these criminals are brought to justice, a common man will be relieved from paying high taxes."

The PTI leader claimed the country is suffering from corruption worth 4,000 billion rupees, of which, Rs3,500 billion are collected in taxes.

"The money laundered from Pakistan easily amounts to a 1,000 billion rupees," he claimed, as he stressed on the need for urgent reforms for the country's economic framework and institutions responsible to take measures against corruption.

Imran also claimed that he faced many hardships inflicted on him by the same mafia [Nawaz and Zardari], ever since he started his political struggle. 

"This mafia continues to damage Pakistan for its own benefits," he said.

He mentioned the testimony of Lyari gang war kingpin Uzair Baloch to fling allegations at Zardari.

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“Baloch confessed that at the behest of Zardari, he got people murdered and illegally confiscated 14 sugar mills in the province to sell them at throwaway prices to the PPP co-chairman," Imran said. “What is this if not corrupt mafia?”

Taking a jibe at the former prime minister, the PTI chief claimed the Sharif family accumulated billions of dollars in wealth by looting the people of Pakistan. 

"Since the past 30 years the Sharif mafia, labelled as the godfather by the Supreme Court, has been taking hold of Punjab," he said.