PM Imran Khan blasts opposition for defeating critical FATF-related bills in the Senate

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today in Senate the opposition defeated 2 critical FATF-related bills: Anti Money Laundering & ICT Waqf bills. From day one I have maintained that the self-serving interests of the opposition leaders & the country's interests are divergent. As accountability noose has tightened,</p>— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1298300719104167948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">the opposition ldrs have become desperate to save their corrupt money by trying to prevent parliament from functioning; by seeking to undermine govt's effective Covid 19 strategy - a recognised global success story - & now by trying to sabotage Pak efforts to exit FATF grey list.</p>— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1298300721801158656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Opposition tries to hide behind facade of democracy to protect their loot & plunder. To blackmail for NRO by defanging NAB, they would even have Pak put on FATF black list to destroy nation's economy & increase poverty. They keep threatening to bring down govt unless given NRO.</p>— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1298300724544188416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Opposition tries to hide behind facade of democracy to protect their loot & plunder. To blackmail for NRO by defanging NAB, they would even have Pak put on FATF black list to destroy nation's economy & increase poverty. They keep threatening to bring down govt unless given NRO.</p>— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1298300724544188416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Bewal Express]

I dare any supporter of these crooks to come on here and explain why they blocked a bill to take PK out of the Grey list. Where are you [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] [MENTION=135038]Major[/MENTION]

 

[Hermoine Green]

I dare any supporter of these crooks to come on here and explain why they blocked a bill to take PK out of the Grey list. Where are you [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] [MENTION=135038]Major[/MENTION]

Because it was presented by the Govt, and it was not in the GOOD favor of opposition. We all know opposition only care about themselves.

 

[Bewal Express]

Because it was presented by the Govt, and it was not in the GOOD favor of opposition. We all know opposition only care about themselves.

I think the opposition has bitten off more than it can chew. IK must hit the opposition hard, for a start, kick out all the crooks from their cosy Prisons, and give them a taste of real prison.

 

[last_knight]

I think the opposition has bitten off more than it can chew. IK must hit the opposition hard, for a start, kick out all the crooks from their cosy Prisons, and give them a taste of real prison.

That's why I keep repeating the key date. March 2021. Senate Elections. PTI will gain simple majority. Opposition wants to get some relief by blackmailing Govt before March. They will be irrelevant after that.

 

[Bewal Express]

That's why I keep repeating the key date. March 2021. Senate Elections. PTI will gain simple majority. Opposition wants to get some relief by blackmailing Govt before March. They will be irrelevant after that.

But the audacity of the crooked opposition to behave so treacherously and without any fear shows that mafia isn't anywhere near beaten. It's time IK asked ISI to do their job and start to eliminate the mafia because our Judiciary is controlled by the mafia.

 

[Major]

But the audacity of the crooked opposition to behave so treacherously and without any fear shows that mafia isn't anywhere near beaten. It's time IK asked ISI to do their job and start to eliminate the mafia because our Judiciary is controlled by the mafia.

Shabash.

Just shows you dont care for democracy, just being power hungry

 

[Bewal Express]

Shabash.

Just shows you dont care for democracy, just being power hungry

We support PK not corrupt thugs. The irony of the PPP criminals talking about democracy You do know who Uzair Baluch is lol.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Letting the crooks like Nawaz and Zardari roam free was a bad move, their looting ******* then get overconfident.

PTI need a majority to slap these theives hard.

 

[Syed1]

I have no words for shameless people who still support PPP and PML-N. It has become very evident how they are ghaddar-e-watan.

 

[Syed1]

Shabash.

Just shows you dont care for democracy, just being power hungry

Care to tell what kind of democracy allows political parties to be passed down to sons and daughters. That's the exact opposite of democracy. PPP and PML-N are the furthest entities from being democratic.

 

[Major]

The money laundering bill was most probably opposed due to NAB being the investigating authority. NAB has many law issues.
There laws are not balanced, could only be used against opposition.

In money laundering cases the burden of proof lies with the accused. One could be arrested without a warrant.

As for the Waqf Bill. MMA opposed to it. But funny, how the twitter PM couldnt utter a word against them

 

[Syed1]

But the audacity of the crooked opposition to behave so treacherously and without any fear shows that mafia isn't anywhere near beaten. It's time IK asked ISI to do their job and start to eliminate the mafia because our Judiciary is controlled by the mafia.

Very well played by Khan to expose these traitors I wish we had Chinese system which doesn't look left or right just straight execution.


Or even the Russian system where the KGB silences traitors and makes it look like an accident.

 

[Bewal Express]

The money laundering bill was most probably opposed due to NAB being the investigating authority. NAB has many law issues.
There laws are not balanced, could only be used against opposition.

In money laundering cases the burden of proof lies with the accused. One could be arrested without a warrant.

As for the Waqf Bill. MMA opposed to it. But funny, how the twitter PM couldnt utter a word against them

You prove the Kaptaans point that they put their own crooked behaviour ahead of PK's interest. What kind of political parties that are supposed democratic put temporary crooked interests ahead of the interests of 220mn. And any way, would they be used against the opposition if they haven't laundered any money. It doesnt take a genius to work out why they are worried. You can't be done for laundering, if you haven't been laundering. It's all the lassi walas that should be worried, didn't they launder all the cash. &#55358;&#56596;

 

[King-Misbah]

Shabash.

Just shows you dont care for democracy, just being power hungry

Who cares about Pakistan? We only care about democrazy due to loot maar

 

[Major]

You prove the Kaptaans point that they put their own crooked behaviour ahead of PK's interest. What kind of political parties that are supposed democratic put temporary crooked interests ahead of the interests of 220mn. And any way, would they be used against the opposition if they haven't laundered any money. It doesnt take a genius to work out why they are worried. You can't be done for laundering, if you haven't been laundering. It's all the lassi walas that should be worried, didn't they launder all the cash. ��

arrest without warrant could be used against anyone.

Dont you believe that NAB needs to fix its own laws if its going to be the investigator in FATF. Do you seriously think arrest without warrant is ok and that to in a case involving politicians. Any case could be labelled as politically motivated.

For obvious reasons a senate that is held in majority by opposition would not agree on this bill.

 

[Major]

Who cares about Pakistan? We only care about democrazy due to loot maar

bro, at one side you guys complain about Uzair Baloch than on the other side you advocate the same thing just by more professional bodies.

Point is, when your favorite are in power its ok to violate human rights or curtail democracy to keep power.

Seeing the support from pti fans for ISI to ELIMINATE opposition members shows how power hungry they are

 

[Itachi]

I think the opposition has bitten off more than it can chew. IK must hit the opposition hard, for a start, kick out all the crooks from their cosy Prisons, and give them a taste of real prison.

why IK hasn't done that till now? Is he afraid of the opposition?

 

[Major]

why IK hasn't done that till now? Is he afraid of the opposition?

COAS wont allow that. They keep the politicians in check by making sure majority doesnt get formed. Power stays in balance. The other parties are just as important to them to keep the balance right

 

[IMMY69]

The money laundering bill was most probably opposed due to NAB being the investigating authority. NAB has many law issues.
There laws are not balanced, could only be used against opposition.

In money laundering cases the burden of proof lies with the accused. One could be arrested without a warrant.

As for the Waqf Bill. MMA opposed to it. But funny, how the twitter PM couldnt utter a word against them

Burden of proof lies with the accused??
Well duh.. of course it does... just like it does in any country.

If the IR approached someone who they suspected of money laundering then it is always up to the accused to prove they didn’t launder money.

This is precisely why you are told to keep records of your financial dealings.

 

[Greenstorm]

This is what happens when you show leniency to crooks.

Now IK will try his best to bring back NS from britian after letting him go.

 

[IAJ]

Shabash.

Just shows you dont care for democracy, just being power hungry

From the posts on PP I have understood you are PPP supporter, correct? And you also speak highly of democracy? Is there any democrazy within PPP? It seems like one single family is running the party for many many years.

And the party keeps misusing Bhutto's name to gain popularity and they even attached the Bhutto name to Bilawal? Not often you see pakistanis use their nana's name and I am sure if this family was not in politics they would never do that.

So all these parties talking about democracy should start looking at their own house first..

PS! I am not any hardcore PTI supporter. I just support Imran Khan as he seems like an honest man trying his best.

 

[MenInG]

ISLAMABAD: The 104-member Senate, where the opposition enjoys majority, on Tuesday rejected two FATF-related bills after Leader of the House Dr Shahzad Waseem refused to tender an apology for remarks that he made against the opposition leadership last week.

The Anti-Money Laundering (Second Amendment) Bill and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Waqf Properties Bill, passed by the National Assembly a day before, were rejected through a voice vote after the opposition linked its cooperation to retraction of Mr Waseem’s remarks and an apology by him and the government side accused the opposition of trying to blackmail it. The bills will now be taken up for voting at a joint session of parliament.

What made the environment more tense was Dr Waseem’s stance that he stood by his words and insistence that he had only narrated facts.

Not surprisingly, the opposition’s attitude drew an immediate, strong reaction from Prime Minister Imran Khan who issued a series of tweets to attack the opposition parties.

Imran lashes out at opposition, says no NRO for them; PPP, PML-N defend their stance

“Today in Senate the opposition defeated 2 critical FATF-related bills: Anti Money Laundering & ICT Waqf bills. From day one I have maintained that the self-serving interests of the opposition leaders & the country’s interests are divergent. As accountability noose has tightened,” he said, adding, “the opposition ldrs have become desperate to save their corrupt money by trying to prevent parliament from functioning; by seeking to undermine govt’s effective Covid 19 strategy — a recognised global success story — & now by trying to sabotage Pak efforts to exit FATF grey list.”

The PM continued: “Opposition tries to hide behind facade of democracy to protect their loot & plunder. To blackmail for NRO by defanging NAB, they would even have Pak put on FATF black list to destroy nation’s economy & increase poverty. They keep threatening to bring down govt unless given NRO.

“Let me make clear: No matter what happens, my govt will not allow any NRO as it would be betrayal of nation’s trust in holding plunderers of public wealth accountable. Musharraf gave NROs to the 2 pol ldrs which quadrupled our debt & destroyed economy. There will be no more NROs,” he declared.

Speaking in the house on Wednesday, Dr Waseem had not only targeted the religious parties, but also attacked the PPP and the PML-N despite the fact that the two parties had supported the government on the FATF-related legislations.

Mr Waseem had said that Pakistan was already on the FATF grey list when the PTI came to power due to bad policies of previous governments.

Amid noisy protest by opposition members, he had said everyone knew the people who were facing money-laundering charges and appearing in the courts.

Responding to the opposition’s insistence for withdrawal of his remarks on Tuesday, Mr Waseem said he had not named anybody. Some opposition members however said he did name Shahbaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari.

At last Mr Waseem said he had no intention of hurting sentiments of anybody, but the opposition was not ready to accept anything short of an apology.

The house also witnessed a heated debate on the discretionary power of the chairman to allow the law minister to table a motion seeking suspension of rules to introduce the bills at once.

The chairman finally rejected the opposition’s view that it was for the house to decide whether this was to be allowed or not.

The tension between the government and the opposition has been continuing for days over allegations that top opposition leaders were seeking NRO.

Information Minister Shibli Faraz on Sunday had posted on his official Twitter account the drafts of the proposals made by the opposition parties for bringing changes to the country’s accountability laws, terming them a “proof” of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claim that the opposition had tried to make a bargain with the government during negotiations on the FATF-related legislation.

In his tweet, the minister had said he was posting the documents as “the PML-N limited” had been asking the government to tell the nation as to who had sought an “NRO”.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi also recently said the opposition wanted to bargain over FATF-related legislation.

Earlier the opposition staged a walkout from the Senate as a mark of protest against suspension of question hour session, saying the government was evading parliamentary accountability.

The opposition protested at the start of the session when Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani asked the leader of house to move the motion under the rules of business that question hour session should be suspended for today (Aug 25).

The Leader of the Opposition Raja Zafarul Haq was the first one who raised the issue and said it had been an old parliamentary tradition that questions were asked . “The leader of the house should inform why the question is being suspended and why the government is running away from parliamentary accountability?” questioned PPP stalwart Mian Raza Rabbani.

As the leader of house moved the motion, the opposition staged a walkout while raising slogans of “no, no”. Mr Sanjrani assured the members that there would be a regular question hour session from onwards and it was suspended only for today as the house was not scheduled to meet today but the session had to be held because two FATF-related bills came from the National Assembly at the eleventh hour.

Meanwhile, PPP’s Sherry Rehman pointed out the quorum and the chairman ordered the staff to ring bells thrice as the house was not in quorum. Later, the chairman adjourned the house for minutes as only 24 members were present in the house when the last count was made.

The house resumed its business after the break as the opposition had ended its boycott.

Soon after the prime minister’s tweets, both the PPP and the PML-N defended their act of opposing the legislations.

Sherry Rehman while replying to the PM, also through tweets, said they had opposed the bills as powers to arrest without warrants were being given to the police and investigators, saying “this is neither required by FATF nor is it defensible in any even the most illiberal democracy.”

“These laws are being pushed as draconian laws,” she said. Moreover, she added, FATF was being used “to expand the scope of NAB to witch hunt the opposition”.

PML-N’s vice-chairman Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, in a statement, said that opposition had foiled the attempts by “puppet and selected chairman (Senate)” to get the bills passed through illegal means. He vowed that they would not allow any legislation against the Constitution and fundamental rights of people.

Mr Abbasi declared that the opposition would block the bills in the present form, if the government made attempt to bring them again in the parliament.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1576499/opposition-ruled-senate-rejects-two-fatf-bills

 

[last_knight]

This is what happens when you show leniency to crooks.

Now IK will try his best to bring back NS from britian after letting him go.

It's harakiri for PMLn if Nawaz Sharif continues to stay in Britain. Otherwise tag of #SerialRunner will go against Sharifs in next elections.
I think now the stage has come when he himself is eager to comeback and is trying to use courts for his comeback. Soon we will see comprehenesive orders from court to bring him back.

 

[IMMY69]

This will be the next passage of play...

You will get little or no reply until they can hop onto something else and then start a new thread bashing IK/PTI.

Dishonesty at its utmost..

 

[Bewal Express]

why IK hasn't done that till now? Is he afraid of the opposition?

More like the system they have created and the courts, which are even more corrupt have backed.

 

[Bewal Express]

arrest without warrant could be used against anyone.

Dont you believe that NAB needs to fix its own laws if its going to be the investigator in FATF. Do you seriously think arrest without warrant is ok and that to in a case involving politicians. Any case could be labelled as politically motivated.

For obvious reasons a senate that is held in majority by opposition would not agree on this bill.

I think your dishonesty shows in your posts. For a start Nooras and PPP had been in power for a decade, what reforms did they propose to stop corruption and make NAB stronger (lol), the laws were not a problem because either one would be in power and despite the public speeches these crooks were joined at the hip and nothing would happen and chairman of NAB said as much in the Panama case. He was willing to be done for contempt but nothing was going to be opened. It was a quite literally a conspiracy against PK by the crooks. If NAB needed any reform, it was to make it a proper anti corruption body. These crooks proposals were nothing but a parody and the Kaptaan showed the public what they demanded. The irony isn't lost on anyone that each demand coincided with the cases these crooks faced.
For a guy that constantly moans about inflation doesn't realise the horrendous impact going into FATF black list would do , or does but wants IK to be blamed. Its not IK that got us into the grey list it's the stolen billions laundered out of PK by the likes of Omni group by AZ and the Sharifs and then brought back as white money and having no effective system to deal with it. The reason the opposition wanted to gut NAB is that despite the Budha being a their man, real cases are coming and the likes of SS, NS, Maryam, AZ, Billo, Meter Shah are going to face the music very soon.

 

[Bhaijaan]

The fact that opposition of Pakistan holds the power to defeat important bills only goes to show how strong Pakistan's democracy has become.

 

[the Great Khan]

so what now? what can we do to get these laws in place? [MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION]

 

[Bewal Express]

so what now? what can we do to get these laws in place? [MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION]

Yes, if they resist they can call a joint session of parliament and get it through that way.

 

[CricketCartoons]

The fact that opposition of Pakistan holds the power to defeat important bills only goes to show how strong Pakistan's democracy has become.

Also shows that democracy is a burden which values the vote of a crook same as the vote of a patriot. down with democracy.

 

[Syed1]

so what now? what can we do to get these laws in place? [MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION]

Opposition has majority in Senate till Senate elections in March 2021. Then PTI will be the majority.


As for these particular bills, PTI will just call joint session of National Assembly and Senate and get it passed because cumulatively they have majority.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Also shows that democracy is a burden which values the vote of a crook same as the vote of a patriot. down with democracy.

The so called crooks only have majority till next Senate elections after which the elected majority will have advantage to pass bills as they like.

This is what democracy enables.

 

[the Great Khan]

Opposition has majority in Senate till Senate elections in March 2021. Then PTI will be the majority.


As for these particular bills, PTI will just call joint session of National Assembly and Senate and get it passed because cumulatively they have majority.

The PTI can use this to further discredit the opposition by saying they are crooks and want an NRO. Very silly move from the opposition to stop this vote from going through.

 

[Bewal Express]

The PTI can use this to further discredit the opposition by saying they are crooks and want an NRO. Very silly move from the opposition to stop this vote from going through.

Needs someone like Fawad Ch to hammer it home on every TV programme. This should become a millstone around the necks of the traitors.