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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Govt’s Policies to empty national exchequer: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

ISLAMABAD: Former Federal Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the Government’s decision to achieve revenue target after taking loans from banks was a joke with Parliament and masses of the country.

“The Government should constitute a Parliamentary committee to probe the issue”, he said this while taking at a point of order in the national assembly on Friday. The government had retired Auditor General of Pakistan, Tanvir Ali Agha, in a controversial decision against the advice of the Law Ministry, he said. Government State Bank also tendered his resignation due to unwise Policies of Government, he claimed. The former federal minister said that Government had borrowed Rs. 43 billion from banks to achieve revenue target. Premature retirement of auditor General of Pakistan, resignation of Governor State bank and resignation of chief economist of Planning commission should be investigated so that masses of the country could know real fact behind this, he demanded. Online