LAHORE: Information Secretary Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q)
Muhammad Akram Chaudhry has accused that corruption had run rampant in
the province and the Punjab government was patronising the hoarders and
profiteers mafia.
Addressing a press conference at the Muslim
League House here on Sunday, Akram Chaudhry said no law existed in the
province against tampering and tampering mafia.
He accused that
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif by not issuing Food Safety Bill
was playing with the lives of the people. This is a clear example of
‘bad governance,’ he said adding that Mian Shahbaz Sharif was wasting
public hard-earned money on his personal friends and personal links.
“Chief
Minister Shahbaz Sharif is doling out Rs6 million to those who were
earning Rs60,00 and this was causing heavy loss to the national
exchequer” he said.
|Pure Food Ordinance 1960 was abolished on
May 21, 2011. Punjab Assembly in June 2011 passed Food Safety and
Standard Authority Bill but the Pure Food Ordinance could not be passed
due to the absence of notification in this regard,” he said. This gave
the profiteers and hoarders free hand to play with the lives of the
people and now there is no check on them, he said.
Shahbaz
Sharif has broken all the previous records of nepotism and a BPS-18
officer of Veterinary Live Stock Dr Hamid Jalil who was earlier taking
Rs60,000 monthly salary has been granted lucrative job, said Akram
Chaudhry.
He demanded a check on the rising meat prices and
called for observance of official rates of the meat and livestock.
According to him, the official price of mutton is Rs350 per kg while
Punjab Meat Corporation which works under the Punjab government and
monitors meat prices in the province itself is selling mutton for Rs485
per kg.
How a government which is violating its own rules can
ensure implementation of its laws, he asked. He said the Punjab
government had constituted a judicial commission to probe into the last
year’s floods and its report has exposed the inefficiency and
incompetence of the Punjab government and “now it is our demand that
the this pro-judiciary government should immediately take action on the
Justice (R) Mansoor Ali Shah Commission’s report and bring those who
were found responsible for the last year’s devastation caused by floods
to the book.” He said Nawaz Sharif was doing politics against the
national institutions while Ch Shujaat Hussain was upholding the honour
and image of the national institutions. Online
