Amraiz Khan
Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Wednesday said that The Broadsheet also confirmed corruption of the prince and absconder father of the Calibri Queen. “Kaneez-e-Awal set a new record of speaking lies although people are well aware of the fact that who is the looter of the resources.
SACM Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan declared that these people will remain to be thieves and all those who bankrupted the country will have to be held answerable for their misdeeds.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that the Punjab government is committed to facilitate the masses and has brought about ease in the lives of the people by providing prompt and easy access to land records. Modern technology is being introduced in the land record centers to keep the system smooth and transparent.
Punjab Minister for Revenue (r) Col Malik Mohammad Anwar was also present on the occasion.
Talking to media, Dr Firdous said that good governance, transparency and provision of better facilities to the masses are the top priorities of the government. She said the Sharif family fraudulently transferred hundreds of acres of land, mostly in the name of its family members, adding that the Sharif family changed the master plan of Lahore and purchased land worth billions of rupees on cheaper rates. She alleged that Sharif family marked the beginning of corruption in Pakistan and was behind every big scandal. Shehbaz Sharif snatched valuable agricultural land from the poor farmers to establish residential colonies, she further said. She said that Punjab, known as the food basket of Pakistan, was looted in the name of industrialization.
The SACM said that the PTI government was taking pragmatic steps to promote agriculture besides setting up 13 Special Economic Zones. She said previously, the revenue officers used to take bribe instead of generating revenue for the state adding that the PTI government had retrieved 140,000 acres of land from land mafias. She said the revenue department collected 46% more revenue as compared to previous year. The SACM said as Chairman Kashmir Committee, Maulana Fazlur Rehman never set out to conquer Kashmir and today he has set out to conquer Rawalpindi. She said the Prime Minister Imran Khan had waged an arduous struggle against the menace of corruption adding that accountability of looters was imperative.
The corrupt elements had been helplessness in front of the prescient leader like Imran Khan, she added. She said that those who are chanting hollow slogans today had emptied the national exchequer in the past and escaped the country by entering into expensive agreements and deals for LNG and electricity. Answering a question on the increase in electricity tariff, the Special Assistant said that the government was bound to respect international agreements signed during the previous regime. She said a tug of war was going on within the PML-N and everybody had prepared its own list of candidates for senate elections.
