'Corrupt have no right to rule'

LAHORE - The government should resign and hold mid-term elections as it has lost credibility to remain in the office after the release of NRO beneficiaries list.
This was demanded by Imran Khan, Chief Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI), on Sunday while addressing a news conference at his residence. Senior party leaders Umar Sarfraz Cheema, Ahsan Rasheed and Mahmoodur Rasheed were also present on the occasion.
How the incumbent government could conduct fair and impartial accountability of its own Cabinet members who had benefited from NRO, he questioned. He proposed that the present govt should set up an independent accountability forum, if it was sincere to the people.
Imran criticised PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif for holding that President Asif Zardari had got immunity under Article 248 of the Constitution. “How can a person who was accused of serious crimes hold the highest public office?”
He appealed to Nawaz Sharif to play his due role to bring NRO beneficiaries in the court of law, failing which the masses would get the impression that PML-N was protecting the corrupt elements.
He said billions of rupees of people had been looted under the NRO, and deposited in the foreign banks, adding that corruption was the main cause behind all the crises being faced the country.
Imran said PTI was not trying to destabilise the democracy in the country but only raising its voice against the corrupt elements, and it was right of the opposition parties and the masses to question the governance of the rulers.