No corrupt person will get NRO: Imran.

Byline: Zahid Chaudhary and Sophia Siddiqui

Islamabad -- Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the assistance provided by Saudi Arabia has reduce the immediate burden of paying the installment of loans accumulated by previous governments..

Addressing the nation, he said that they were thankful to Saudi Arabia for its help in a difficult time.

'We were trying to get loans from our friendly nations so we rely less and less on IMF,' the prime minister said in his address. 'We are also in talks with other friendly countries.'

He said he was hoping to give the nation more good news in the coming days.

'Had we gone to the IMF immediately, it would have hurt the nation as fulfilling their hard terms requires passing on burden on the masses.'

Khan said that he will try to get Muslim countries together, besides acting as a 'mediator' in resolution of conflicts between Muslim countries. 'We are trying our best to act as a mediator to resolve the Yemen crisis,' he said. On Tuesday, the government struck a deal for a 12-month balance of payments lifeline with Saudi Arabia, which will deposit $3 billion with Pakistan's central bank and provide a matching one-year deferred payment facility for oil imports.

According to a government statement, the visit by the PM to the kingdom resulted in significant understandings between the two countries. The prime minister vowed to continue the fight against corruption alleging that Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz want to get an NRO from his government. He stated that his government will not give any NRO to these parties.

'If these two parties want to take to streets, then they should go ahead with it,' Khan said, promising to provide them containers for camping out. 'Get this loud and clear, there will be no NRO. I will not spare any...