Saraikistan Democratic Party(SDP) on wednesday staged a demonstration at Chown Nawan Shehr to protest against the corruption of Sharifs and establishing off-shore companies and assets of billions of dollars as revealed by Panama leaks.The demo was led by Rana Muhammad Faraz Noon Chairman of SDP, Inayatullah Mashriqi, Zakaullah Anjum. Participant shouted slogans against the Government and they demanded the Supreme Court to take suo motu of the wealth of present and past rulers in offshore companies and award exemplary punishment to plunderers of public money.Rana Fraza Noon said said details of properties of politicians and their kith and kin given by the Panama Leaks had stunned the nation. He said every government had obtained huge loans from the IMF and World Bank at high interest rate and the burden of the loans was passed on the common man in the form of raise in taxes and utilities charges. He said that the amount of foreign loans was transferred abroad and invested there.He said that if the money invested abroad was earned lawfully, there was no reason to hide it from the public eye. Those building offshore businesses to evade taxes have no right to expect the masses to pay taxes, he added. Zakaullah Anjum Malghani stressed that all those holding high public offices should be barred from carrying on private business because they were likely to use their official positions to expand private businesses. He said it was astonishing that while the private businesses of the rulers and their families were expanding miraculously, national institutions were going down. He alleged criminals and dacoits had become masters of the nation’s fate by virtue of the NRO and added that people had no right to the rule the country unless they mended their ways. Inayat-ullah Mashriqi said that corruption-free Pakistan drive was becoming a national movement and he was sure that in the present situation, the plunderers and dacoits would be forced to quit politics. He said it was irony that the rulers were inviting foreigners to invest in Pakistan. He said if they were sincere with the nation and the country, they should bring their wealth here and invest in the country. Other speakers said that corruption of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders will be exposed when the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is free from all pressures.They said if transparent accountability was conducted, corrupt leaders of the PML-N would have to go jails.
“Panama Papers leaks will prove political demise of current rulers,” they said, adding that “the government creates hurdles for the NAB and then makes the people fool by challenging ‘prove corruption’”.
