Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Acting Ameer Liaqat Baloch said on Saturday that the National Accountably Bureau (NAB) chairman was being blackmailed.
Addressing the central advisory body of the JI at Mansoora, he said that allegations against the NAB chairman had been leveled by a TV channel owned by the PM’s advisor.
He said that the advisor should be shown the door. He demanded setting up of a judicial commission or a JIT to investigate the matter.
The JI acting chief said that accountability should be impartial and across the board. “The 436 people named in the Panama leaks case and others involved in mega corruption scandals should all be investigated,” he said.
Baloch said that the JI would start a protest march against price hikes and unemployment from Lahore on June 16.
He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had not done anything for the improvement of the situation. “The PM first said that the situation will improve in one hundred days. Now the PM has sought two more months for overcoming the difficulties facing the people. Such behaviour creates doubts,” he said. He said the rise in electricity, gas and petroleum prices had put immense burden on the people. “The common people are being affected because of the government’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund. The people cannot withstand this,” he said. He said that the sugar mafia was being favoured, but the general public was being burdened with new taxes.
