PML-Q issues White Paper on Nawaz Sharif
Bureau Report

LAHORE—Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Tuesday unveiled a 22-Point White Paper on the corruption and malpractices committed by former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif. Central Vice President of the PML Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani, flanked by party leaders Senator Kamil Ali Agha and others, released the white paper here at the PML House at a crowded press conference.
The white paper narrated the two tenures of PML-N Chief as Premier and once as Chief Minister an era filled with corrupt practices, plunder of the national exchequer and gross misconduct. “The personality of the two-time Prime Minister (Nawaz Sharif) reflects him as a ‘failed politician’ who, throughout his reign, remained busy in corruption, fraudulent and misdemeanor activities. He is an autocrat with no relation to democratic norms and traditions. His each tenure in the helm of affairs was more dishonest than the previous one. His malpractices not only swayed away the economic structure of the state but also made the lives of poor disastrous. Even some individuals had to commit self-immolation during his second tenure as premier. With a design to weaken the state institutions, he even ordered an attack on the Supreme Court building and this heinous act also reflects the blatant attempts to destabilize other leading state institutions including that of the armed forces,” said Senator Durrani.
He alleged that the former prime minister also hatched a conspiracy to kill the then army chief on October 12, 1999 while Nawaz Sharif also made an attempt to divide the institutions of Pakistan Army. He said that the PML-N Chief looted the poor Pakistanis in the name of ‘Qarz utaro Mulk Sanwaro Campaign’ while he also seized the foreign currency accounts and deprive the Pakistani expatriates of their hard earned capital.
“When the courts awarded him sentences for his crimes, the Sharifs made an underhand deal with the help of a friendly country and left his country, his party, followers, sympathizers and even comrades in lurch,” he said. “Now when the country has regained its lost pride, grace, economic uplift, respect and taken to the development course, the plunderers are back to repeat the past practices. But they do not know that during the past eight years, the masses have been empowered and they are conscious and cognizant enough to their past and they would defeat them on February 18,” said the upbeat Durrani.
Senator Durrani said the facts reported in the white paper had been acknowledged internationally and they were never been challenged by anyone in any court of law. He asked the Sharif to explain his position on the points raised by him in the white paper.
Senator Durrani asserted that Mian Nawaz Sharif, during his tenure as Chief Minister Punjab from 1988-90, deprived the provincial departments of Rs. 15.35 billion. He said that the Auditor General Report released in the year 1988 said that Mian Nawaz Sharif, misusing his authority as Chief Minister Punjab, issued directives which resulted into direct malpractice of Rs. 35 billion. The report said that the Chief Minister Secretariat had been turned out to be a ‘hub of corrupt practices’ and the Sharif wasted the public money like an ‘emperor’ that resulted into huge fiscal deficit of the province.
The Auditor General Report released in the year 1986 said that the then Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif had used Rs. 120 Crore for malpractices in only one year. It further said that Nawaz Sharif allotted 3000 precious LDA plots among his favorites due to which the provincial assets suffered loss of billions of rupees.
“Nawaz Sharif ordered the CBR to issue several CBRs due to which got Rs. 40 Crore.