NRO with plunderers of national wealth ‘out of question’: Murad Saeed

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services, Murad Saeed, has said no national reconciliation ordinance (NRO) will take place with those who looted nation’s wealth for years, ARY News reported Wednesday.

Speaking in the ARY News programme, Saeed said those who plundered national wealth were now facing cases in the courts. He said Nawaz Sharif was granted six-week bail by the court and the government was just implementing the court orders.

Regarding corruption charges he leveled against the former minister, Murad Saeed said he had not yet received any notice from Ahsan Iqbal. He said Rs 50 billion corruption was witnessed in Multan-Sukkur motorway project. “We will retrieve Rs 50 billion of the public from Ahsan Iqbal,” he claimed.

The minister said all record of the misappropriation had been provided to the National Accountability Bureau.

He said two frontmen of influential leaders, Ashraf D. Baloch and Ayaz Muhammad Khan, were given contracts on heavy amount by the previous government.

He said Pakistan People’s Party leaders Khursheed Shah and Nasir Shah encroached lands in Sindh. Further names will come out next week, he added.

He said the funds allocated for Larkana package were later transferred to fake bank accounts.

“If we ask them about the money, they come up with warnings that democracy is in danger,” said the minister. Taking a jibe at the ‘train march’ led by the PPP chairperson, Murad Saeed said Bilawal Bhutto was leading the ‘Abbu Bachao Tehreek’.