No leniency for national wealth plunderers: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed the resolve to make those people answerable who had plundered the national exchequer and burdened the nation with financial woes.

He reiterated that there would be no concession for the looters and plunderers. “There will be no NRO whatever approach they make to save their skin. I will make them answerable,” he said.

The prime minister was addressing an inauguration ceremony of Sir Syed Express train at Rawalpindi Railway station.

He said if today, both Zardari and Nawaz Sharif brought back the looted money, the rupee would be strengthened, easing the pressure of dollar.

The prime minister Imran Khan said during last decade, the two successive governments of PPP and PML-N had burdened the country with Rs30,000 billion debt which was around Rs6000 billion ten years back.

Two houses of Sharif and Zardari had become billionaires while the nation suffered, he added.

The prime minister strongly rebuffed the opposition’s claims of revengeful policy towards them, by adding that when he had taken up the Panama case in the Supreme Court, he was made a victim of vindictive policy by the previous rulers who had registered 32 FIRs against him and filed six cases in the Election Commission of Pakistan. “That can be called as vengeful approach by the PML-N government against him,” he added.

He said that he had answered all the questions at the Supreme Court who had declared him as ‘sadiq’ and ‘amin’. “I have not escaped to London but replied to every question,” he added.