The rulers should start extending “exemplary punishment” against corrupt: Ch Sarwar

Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Punjab organiser Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar has said the rulers should start extending “exemplary punishment” against corrupt from themselves and added that they would be held accountable sooner or later.

He said the PML-N’s juggleries could no more befool masses and demanded that the government should withdraw withholding tax and added that the government was actually extorting money from traders. If the government did not withdraw, he said, the PTI would fully support traders’ long march. He said the government policies had pushed the country in the economic crisis.

Chaudhary Sarwar was addressing a delegation led by MNA Aneesa Khattak at his office on Thursday. He said the PTI had made tall claims during its election campaign but could not materialise any of its promises. He said the PML-N had announced hanging corrupt upside down at Bhatti Chowk. However, he said, neither the PML-N government arrested any corrupt nor brought the looted money back in the country. He said the rulers were never serious in taking action against the corrupt. He said the PML-N rulers should start the process of changing corrupt upside down from themselves. He said the corrupt must be held accountable.

Chaudhary Sarwar said the incumbent rulers were all praise for the Nandipur power project but could not run it after completing the project. Now, he said, the project drenched in rampant corruption and people had identified the rulers as being corrupt. He said the PML-N had always expressed cordial relations with the traders community but it was strange that now it was going to “extort” money from the traders in the name of withholding tax.

He said the PTI strongly condemned the levying of withholding tax and demanded its immediate withdrawal. Otherwise, he said the PTI would support the traders in their long march and pressurise the government to withdraw the tax.