PTI Accuses Govt Of Shelving Accountability System.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former adviser to the prime minister on accountability Brigadier (retd) Musaddiq Abbasi on Tuesday fired a salvo at the ruling coalition and said that the present set-up wanted to wrap up the accountability system in the country only to avoid possible punishment.

He alleged that the nine-party coalition wanted to seize power on a one-point agenda and this was to abolish the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the top anti-corruption watchdog, to escape accountability. Reacting to the statement of former prime minister and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former adviser in a statement said that a country could never be prosperous where the elite and privileged class enjoyed immunity and could not be punished for wrongdoings and corrupt practices.

He said that the leaders of different parties of the 'imported government' were facing serious corruption charges against them and they have yet to answer before the courts. The PTI leader stated that their emphasis to abolish the institution of accountability was an...