LAHORE, Apr 2: Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Syed Munawar Hasan has said that State Bank's quarterly report has completely exposed the false claims of former west-imported Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz and his mentor Gen Musharraf which they had been making for the last five years to befool the nation regarding fake economic progress.

Addressing a meeting of party office bearers Wednesday, Munawar Hasan alleged that Shaukat Aziz fled the country after plundering about 60 billion rupees through kickbacks of the privatization of state assets. He further alleged that in order to cover the up his own corruption Shaukat Aziz issued state loans of Rs. 54 billions to his accomplices which were later written off. He demanded that Shaukat Aziz must be brought back through Interpol and tried for fraud so that the plundered public money could be recovered from him.

He said for the last eight years Gen Musharraf and his team befooled the nation about economic prosperity and inflating state exchequer, but on the other hand poverty and unemployment kept rising along with the mass suicides. He said Shaukat Aziz could have sold Steel mills also but timely decision by chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry saved the country from a vital blow.

Munawar said Pakistan is a cursed nation which has been plundered by successive rulers for the last many decades, despite that coming rulers booked their predecessors in corruption cases, spent further public money on the legal procedures, but none of the cases concluded in punishing the plunderers and always kept deferred till the time the accused again came to power to get 'exonerated honorably'. He expressed sorrow that this evil game has been played with the nation ever since its inception and God knows for how long it will be continued.

 
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