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LAHORE: Punjab Assembly opposition leader and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Core Committee member Mahmoodur Rashid has challenged the attorney general’s report presented in the Supreme Court detailing Rs547 billion losses the government claims to have suffered due to the Islamabad sit-ins.
“It’s a fictitious report based on fake data,” Mr Rashid said in a statement here on Sunday.
He, however, would not explain how the particulars of AG’s report were false.
Referring to the AG’s submission that the government spent an extra Rs130 million on maintenance of law and order, Mr Rashid said the amount was less than Rs224 million spent on acquiring bulletproof cars for the prime minister.
He also declared as mala fide the report that 200,000 children could not attend schools because of PTI, PAT demonstrations. The factual position was, Mr Rashid claimed, that these children had to stay away from schools because of hundreds of containers blocking various roads of the capital.
Mr Rashid wondered why both the prime minister and the chief minister never bothered about children’s absence from schools because of the containers “placed to seal the whole province”.
Mr Rashid said the government had issued Rs500 billion to clear the circular debt of IPPs, while Rs37 billion were misappropriated in the name of Nandipur Power Project.
He said Punjab’s businessmen suffered Rs100 billion losses due to unscheduled power and gas loadshedding. Why the government did not see this and why it turned a blind eye to the mismanagement and corruption, he asked.
Published in Dawn, September 8th, 2014
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Sep 08, 2014 06:30am
Wait hold on - PTI has become the monster it used to detest. Please stop this insane sort of opposition. Win the next election and uhm do whatever you want within constitutional means. No one believes your ilzams anymore. The country has rejected your politics and dharna politics.
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Sep 08, 2014 06:47am
what are this persons credentials. Good luck Pakistan - IK win 30 seats and he can do so much damage - if he wins majority...you can imagine.
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Sep 08, 2014 07:08am
What I fail to understand in this economic loss blame game is that PTI is staging a sit-in or a protest, they have called for civil disobedience and stopping the wheels of the government. If that is done successfully this is exactly the result to be expected.
Why does the government blame them for this and not themselves for bringing so many people out on the streets???
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Sep 08, 2014 07:13am
Well this is not good. When you say something is not true then you should prove it so.
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Sep 08, 2014 07:15am
IK and PTI have talked about massive election rigging, Baluchistan CM of vote rigging and now say the AG report is fake. However, in any allegation that they have made thus far no proof has ever been submitted. This reminds me of a saying that goes like" you can fool some people all the time or you can fool all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time".
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Sep 08, 2014 07:27am
They are using circular logic and non sequitors. Government spent 130 million extra on maintenance of law and order that is no way related to the 240 million already spent on the PM bullet proof car. If these people had not shown up the 130 million would have been saved.
What PTI wants to say is as follows: I need to see a doctor, will if the government had made sure that you were not born then you would not need to see the doctor.
The containers were placed to prevent the situation from becoming a complete walk over. If you had not shown up then there would be no containers and the kids would be in school.
I don't understand what education this person has, but you cannot say a report is wrong without showing how its wrong. This is pure stupidity. I am regretting ever voting for this bunch.
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Sep 08, 2014 07:37am
Pti is running out of tricks. This dharna has lost credibility and people who still are attending are either students who go there to have fun or they are insane. It is a fashion statement to be supporting Imran. May Allah give them hidaya. They are all playing with the future of the country.
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Sep 08, 2014 07:38am
It's PTI's habit that whatever they say is correct and everybody else is lying. You guys have seriously eroded your trust and credibility in the masses and the best way to mend is to focus on KPK, act as aa responsible opposition and shun the anti state and anti personal politics.
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Sep 08, 2014 08:30am
@Shuaib Bhat
"Win the next election and uhm do whatever you want ... ". It could be better written as "Rig the next election and uhm do whatever you want".
Without the system being changed, crook politicians would continue to steal the elections and masses would continue to suffer in poverty, with very low standards of basic facilities in health and education.
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Sep 08, 2014 08:40am
Has AG ever found out how much money is looted by the influential ppl? the losses by PTI sit-ins is not even a 0.001% of it.. I am not a supporter of PTI but its sounds pennywise pound foolish!
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Sep 08, 2014 08:56am
There isn't no corruption in Pakistan because nothing has been proven in a court of law.
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Sep 08, 2014 09:12am
It is often said that Pakistan is passing through difficult times, I think this is really a moment of ordeal for all of us. We have agitation for the last 25 days, we are suffering from devastating floods and Govt and opposition politicians have started blaming each other. Pl stay focussed on the core issues before someone from outside takes the benefit out of it.
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Sep 08, 2014 11:19am
@Shuaib Bhat Oh dear, why not interested in the better option of cleaning the present assemblies of corrupt and selfish law makers ? Moreover, if...repeat if the present highly flawed electoral system remains in place then how can any future elections remain free from riggings and manipulations. It needs to be understood that our present lot of politicians want the status quo to prevail so that they can "easily" enter assemblies in future too.
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Sep 08, 2014 11:24am
A true democratic system should allow protests for valid causes and pay attention as to why people are desperate to conduct protests under trying circumstances. Obviously thousands of PTI and PAT followers, along with millions of silent spectators are averse to a faulty democracy where country is run by two alternating major political parties. Such political parties are headed by some of the richest individuals in Pakistan with vast business empires and castle like residences. It looks like such politicians have discovered a money making formula under the guise of democracy, where their assets seem to double every five years? Than you have poor masses with unbearable living conditions and feel hostage to a system that works very well for rich dynasties, and punishes poor masses. There are people in Pakistan who sleep on side walks, cannot afford three meals a day, cannot send children to schools and cannot afford medical treatments. Than you have rich politicians getting richer by the day. Sham democracy should be discarded & replaced with a democracy where politicians are voted to serve the nation. Long live Pakistan. And long live Pakistan military forces helping out flood victims. May Almighty bless them for their good deeds.
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Sep 08, 2014 11:44am
Good somebody has started to do the math.
Please also tell us what is the damage to the economy in terms of money, due to-corruption &nepotism?
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Sep 08, 2014 01:11pm
These losses are nothing compare to corruption by the elites.
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Sep 08, 2014 02:09pm
There are losses no doubt but probably they've included NSs personal losses too
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Sep 08, 2014 02:17pm
PTI should take responsibility when they do wrong.lame excuses & denail policy wont work
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Sep 08, 2014 02:31pm
Everything said by everyone "EXCEPT" PTI is fake or wrong or a lie!!!
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Sep 08, 2014 03:21pm
The government should not talk to PTI or TUQ, they should let them sit there for as long as they can get away with it.
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Sep 08, 2014 03:24pm
Most of the schools in Islamabad are still closed and the entire academic calender is seriously disturbed. On the other hand the daily wagers are unable to find jobs and the traders and shop owners are out of business and cursing the sit-in. It is mainly because of the dharna and the mystery that shrouding it. Though the life in the city is slowly going back to normal but the uncertainty still prevails. As the city and the whole nation continue to suffer the IQ duo are shaking and enjoying the music and colors in the heart of the once red zone of Islamabad.
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Sep 08, 2014 04:24pm
PTI sit-ins were completely peaceful. PTI did not stop anyone from doing trade, open their industries, and go to their offices or schools, except for Pakistan Secretariat, where workers were admitted after body search. PTI is also not responsible for cancellation of Chinese President, as it had offered him protection and flowers, which he himself refused. PTI is working on a single point agenda, and if PMLN and other elected parties of Parliament are so much interested in the country's economic development, they must accept this single point agenda. Lastly, it may be noted that PTI is doing all this on the instruction of the highest protective agency of the country, which aims to protect the country at any cost. PTI believes that these costs, even if true, are much smaller than the protection gained through the sit-ins.
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Sep 08, 2014 04:51pm
another dharna?
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Sep 08, 2014 04:54pm
@pkExpat Your statements need some proof. The protesters do not seem to be insane or all college students either. And Imran Khan is right that the government tries to shift the blame to him, when it is they who make it impossible for people to get their rights without staging marches and sit-ins.
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Sep 08, 2014 06:45pm
Amazing govt. of Pakistan worried about unnecessary expenses.
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Sep 08, 2014 08:10pm
Misuse of Govt machinery to malign those that expose corruption of the rulers.
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Sep 08, 2014 08:37pm
PTI has also rejected the election results which gained them KP government. They are saying that 2013 polls were rigged.
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Sep 08, 2014 09:24pm
There is nothing that can be trusted from the Govt.
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Sep 08, 2014 11:37pm
LOL, its a rigged report. You are done.
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Sep 09, 2014 01:47am
Now this is the new height of stubbornness.
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Sep 09, 2014 04:10am
Why are you denying AG's report. This has to happen with long Dharnas. Ik himself asked Pakistanis for civil disobedience by stop paying taxes and utility bills , to send remittance through Hundi. His goal is to bankrupt Pakistan, You should be happy that your goals are fulfilled so fast.
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