Minister urges PPP, PML-N leaders, families to answer public for accumulating assets worth billions

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Education, Shafqat Mehmood on Monday urged Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N, party leaders and their families to answer public for accumulating assets worth billions of rupees.

Talking to a private news channel programe, the minister said  the PPP and PML-N leaders Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto, Maryam Nawaz and other family members were holding billions of rupees assets abroad.

Expressing strangeness about purchasing  properties abroad by the leaders of PPP and PML-N, he said  the entire nation wanted to know the source of income of these leaders including Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto for having ownership of big flats, houses and other properties  abroad.

Commenting on video tap, he said Maryam Nawaz should justify the public regarding the authenticity of video information.

The minister said  the PML-N leaders had been using such tactics in the past against the judiciary and other national institutions.

He added that the PPP and PML-N had been involved in attacking the national institutions besides killing the innocent people in police encounters like Model Town incident.

To a question about the cases of Asif Ali  Zardari and Nawaz Sharif, he said the national accountability bureau (NAB), was dealing the cases and the present government did nothing regarding the inquiry of the cases, he added.

Shafqat Mehmood said that all the cases against PPP and PML-N leaders were made during their tenures of the government.