Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry Saturday said the government would not allow Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders audit projects unveiled during their own tenure.
Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, the information minister said that the opposition had no right to hold the top slot of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
“How can the government have him [Shehbaz] investigate the projects rolled out during the PML-N rule?”
The federal minister added that the government would not conduct by-elections in the manner the PML-N had carried them out during their tenure.
He said that no officials would be shifted from government posts and state funds would not be used by the PTI leaders for their own gain.
He said most of the administrative officers were the same as appointed by the caretaker government.
“In fact, our candidates complain that sometimes they feel as if they belong to some opposition party and other party candidates are from the ruling party,” he said while explaining the federal government’s policy of observing neutrality while holding elections. The PTI would emerge victorious in the upcoming by-elections, said Chaudhry, adding that even more seats would be occupied by the ruling party in parliament following the by-polls.
Published in Daily Times, September 30th 2018.
