Opposition blamed for attacking national institutions to evade accountability

Opposition blamed for attacking national institutions to evade accountability.

Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) Ali Amin Khan Gandapur hurled this charge on Tuesday.

He was addressing a public meeting at Ghanche in GB region.

Opposition blamed for attacking national institutions

There, he said the opposition parties were spewing venom against the national institutions to evade accountability process.

He said opposition parties leaders want to protect their looted money.

Gandapur said Prime Minster Imran Khan had made it clear that the accountability process against the corrupt elements would continue regardless of their protests.

While terming the opposition parties’ leaders as ‘opportunists’, he said they just wanted to loot public money.

The minister accused them of eyeing gaining benefits by coming into the power.

He urged the GB’s people to use ‘power of the vote’ for their upcoming generations by casting vote to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Gandapur assured that PTI would carry out massive development work in the area, besides creating maximum job opportunities for its people after coming to power in GB.

Provisional-provincial status to the GB

The minister reiterated the PTI government’s strong commitment of giving a provisional-provincial status to the GB.

He said the initiative would begin a new era of development and prosperity in the area that suffered due to slackness of the past regimes.

The minister further said the GB people’s forefathers had rendered great sacrifices for its liberation.

However, unfortunately the governments they chose in the past did not recognize their sacrifices.

He noted Prime Minister Imran Khan as the first leader in history of Pakistan who has taken the decision for granting provisional-provincial status to the GB. He did so as he took cognizance of its people’s sufferings.

Moreover, Ali Amin regretted that the GB dwellers had been deprived of their constitutional rights for the last 73 years.

He said the prime minister had a vision to uplift the less-developed areas like GB and Federally Administered Tribal areas (FATA).

Credit for FATA merger also goes to PM Khan

“The credit for FATA merger goes to Prime Minister Imran Khan,” he remarked.

Ali Amin pointed out that the present government had given Rs 400 billion for removing sense of deprivation from the people of FATA.

He said both the parties including Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) had governed the GB in the past but did not own its residents.

The minister said contrary to the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Sindh government had refused to give FATA’s share in previous National Finance Commission (NFC) Award.

Gandapur said he believes that the opposition parties would never give them their share in the NFC awards.

Furthermore, he said only Imran Khan can ensure that FATA gets its share in NFC award.

GTV