Shehbaz Demands Parliamentary Investigation of Medicine Import Scandal
PMLN President and National Assembly Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif has demanded an in depth investigation of the medicine scandal through a parliamentary committee.
In a statement Shehbaz said, like the sugar and wheat scandal, Imran Niazi is also the chief culprit in the medicine scandal. He said Niazi gave the approval of importing medicine from India in a cabinet meeting. He said import of other medicines under the garb of life-saving medicine is a heinous crime which must not go unpunished.
Shehbaz said had anything remotely like this been donw during the PMLN tenure, Imran Niazi would have filed a petition for treason against the government. Imran is also the health Minister which is why he needs to answer and explain himself over this scandal worth billions.
The National Assembly Opposition Leader reminded that corruption worth billions through medicines had surfaced before as well but Imran Niazi had not only sheltered the politician in question but had awarded her a special position in his government.
Shehbaz said Imran’s astonishment and cluelessness isn’t enough as this concerns life-saving drugs and lives of the people of Pakistan. The guilty must be apprehended, brought to justice and given exemplary punishment, he stressed.
