Karachi: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon urged Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah to confiscate all public donations available with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan that were collected in name of flood victims in country.

He said such funds should be confiscated as they had not been spent on any charitable cause. Speaking at press conference at Sindh Assembly, Memon lamented that neither did donations collected by PTI Chairman reach flood victims nor did Khan himself visit people devastated by natural calamity in country.

He said federal government should confiscate flood-related public donations available with PTI Chairman and deposit them into national exchequer as that money belonged to people of Pakistan. He claimed that Sindh government had been giving full attention to cause of rehabilitating thousands of displaced flood victims in province. “As we speak now, Sindh Chief Minister is visiting areas of province affected by floods along with irrigation minister and entire administrative machinery for personally monitoring drainage operation,” Memon said.

He added that Pakistan Peoples’ Party Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had been pleading case of flood victims wherever he went outside Pakistan to mobilise international community for getting more emergency relief for them. PPP Chairman also internationally advocated cause of justice for Pakistani flood victims who had been affected by global phenomenon of climate change, Memon stated, adding that Khan and his cronies during their stint in power wilfully harmed national economy.

He alleged that Khan’s politics was full of double standards as earlier he had stated that amnesty schemes were introduced to provide benefit to plunderers of country but later, his own sister Aleema Khan become one of beneficiaries of such a scheme.

He said Election Commission of Pakistan had rightly rejected frivolous petition filed by PTI to disqualify Faryal as application filed by two lawmakers of PTI contained baseless allegations that she had unlawfully concealed her personal assets.

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 16 2022

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