Govt to make public aware of NRO perspective: Shibli.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has said that the government will make public aware of the perspective of NRO as Prime Minister Imran Khan has explicitly stated that any kind of NRO to the opposition will not be given.

Addressing a press conference here yesterday, he said the opposition used to claim that they never voiced for NRO. It was the opposition, who put forward terms and conditions on the issue of FATF bill and the opposition drafted all these terms in accordance with their interests, said Shibli Faraz.

He said that the opposition had proposed 34 out of 38 amendments in the National Accountability Ordinance to hide corruption of its leadership committed in the past.

He said they pressurized the government by proposing these amendments, at a time when the government was seeking opposition's cooperation for the Financial Action Task Force related legislation to bring Pakistan out of the FATF's grey list.

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Shibli Faraz said the opposition proposed that NAB should not have powers to take up cases reported before 1999 and should only take notice of corruption cases reported in the last five years.

He said the opposition also suggested that corruption cases of less than one billion rupees, wilful default or writing off loan, and offence of money laundering should stay out of the NAB's purview.

The minister said another proposal is to change the definition of Benamidars, giving free hands to make corruption in the name of wife and children. He said it was proposed to allow convicts to contest elections till final disposal of their cases and disqualification should be up to only five years.

He said the opposition desired to make redundant the international mutual legal assistance law and dealing it under the law of evidence of Pakistan.

Shibli Faraz said that these amendments if incorporated will grant corrupt leaders of opposition an NRO plus, making the NAB practically dysfunctional. He said the gang of corrupt leaders is misleading the people by holding mass gatherings in the country. He said the opposition attempted to create a divide among institutions responsible for the country's security.

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He said that the government is functioning as per law and the Constitution. He said the PTI government will fulfil all its pledges, including provision of 10 million jobs and five million houses, in its...

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