The Relationship Between The Civilian And Military Leadership Had Witnessed Improvement Under His Tenure - PM Abbasi

The relationship between the civilian and military leadership had witnessed improvement under his tenure -  PM Abbasi

The prime minister to a query maintained that the relationship between the civilian and military leadership had witnessed improvement under his tenure. Progress was achieved on the national issues as all the stakeholders had developed consensus on different issues including FATA, he added.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th May, 2018 ) :The prime minister to a query maintained that the relationship between the civilian and military leadership had witnessed improvement under his tenure.

Progress was achieved on the national issues as all the stakeholders had developed consensus on different issues including FATA, he added. He said the bureaucracy could not work when its every move was questioned by the courts, or NAB.

"Political or elected government cannot make decisions in such difficult times," he said and cited reasons ranging from functioning of the NAB, cases in judiciary and to some extent role of media.

"Even bureaucracy was hesitant to move a summary due to fears from the courts cases or figuring of their Names in media," he added. The prime minister also reiterated his party's stance that NAB was created for witch hunting of the politicians.

"We strived to develop a consensus to dissolve NAB and hand over its functions to some other institution" he said and stressed for holding of dialogue to consider NAB's role. The prime minister emphasized that the elected government should work till last minute of its mandate by setting a future course for the upcoming governments.

He said that he did not expect any justice from NAB court for PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif. How these references were filed and how the cases were being preceded, there was no precedent in the past in which a case was being handled in such a way, he added.

The prime minister said Nawaz Sharif was ready to go to jail for the sake of his principles. He said people of the country were well aware of all the developments taking place in the country. Nawaz Sharif had not been accused of any corruption, the only allegation pertained to ownership of the flats, upon the basis of which he had already been deprived of his membership of the parliament, party leadership and even stood disqualified as prime minister, he added.

He said Nawaz Sharif always spoke of national progress and his political career was based upon those principles. The prime minister said that his statement was distorted by the Indian media under an objective.

He said the National Security Committee (NSC) meeting was held so that the wrong impression created by media interpretations could be countered and a narrative based upon the national interest could be made public.

About former head of ISI Lt. Gen. (retd) Asad Durrani's book, the prime minister said that he had neither read it nor seen it. He said a narrative raising questions on the national security could be discussed in the next NSC meeting.

The prime minister also justified borrowing from China by saying that the country's economy had been in the growing stage, giving raise to different challenges, so such moves were made by every government.

The prime minister said that the tax amnesty scheme was facing a big challenge from the judiciary as it had formed a committee. Unless clarity was made by the judiciary, no one would avail the scheme, he added.

He said the stability in the country could be made when decisions were taken in the national interest. He said the scheme had provided an opportunity to people to get into the tax net. Individual tax rates were halved and made easier.

The prime minister hinted that use of technology would be made to detect tax evaders. He said the policy had been laid down by the PML-N government and added that the next government could not find a space of making a slight amendment of even replacing a comma or a full stop.

The PML-N had presented the best fiscal budget. The country had achieved the high growth rate and inflation was at the lowest level. All the indicators of the economy were showing growth and stability, he added. The prime minister also acknowledged the historic win of the Pakistan cricket team at the Lord's test. APP/irf/azm