Negligence of four years can’t be compensated just in nine months: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

KARACHI, Jan 16 (SABAH): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Senior Vice President and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that  negligence of previous regime spanning over four years could not be compensated just in nine months.

While talking to media persons outside the accountability court in Karachi, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the general elections of 2018 were rigged ones and those who were involved in it had to dissolve assembly. He said there was a need to dissolve National Accountability Court (NAB) and continued that he didn’t want to buy the support of the Bureau.

He further said this is the country where the officers did not take decisions, adding in this land of ours, the Cabinet’s decisions were not admitted which was why the country was not being run properly. He added the prime minister did not pay visits abroad for the purpose of outing but for the sake of interests of the country, saying negligence spanning over four years could not be compensated mere in nine months.

The former prime minister while referring to the previous government tenure said, “You should answer for the previous four years while I will reply regarding my nine months stint. When we left the government there was interest of Rs 15 billion whereas now it has mounted to Rs 42 billion.”

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that miracle could not happen just in one day, adding there was a need to search for solution in this regard. He furthered how the country could be run when the officers over here did not take decisions as per law. If the officers would not decide the cases; it will further intensify the bad situation of inflation in the country, he added.

He concluded saying political stability come by fulfilling responsibilities whereas playing politics through assemblies will not purify the politics. He said that NAB could not answer in connection with corruption, adding it come under the purview of Bureau to abolish the reference made under the political pressure. He added it was beyond his understanding that why the NAB was handless to abolish the reference.