Why are you silent on the amnesty bill
for property sector thieves, Imran Khan?
It is useless
to ask people like Ishaq Dar and Nawaz Sharif to think of the country’s future
(they are there only to enrich themselves) but what about Imran Khan?
It has finally happened. For the past five months, our
government strongly resisted pressure from property sector players
to grant them amnesty to retain stolen money. This week, the National Assembly
– composed mainly of crooks – approved a bill which
will enable these thieves to whiten their black money by paying back only 3% of
the amount that they have looted from the nation.
Property investors and builders are jubilant. This scheme allows them to whiten seven
trillion rupees instantly, while paying a piddling amount to the exchequer.
Prices of their plots, bungalows and apartments will undergo a phenomenal
increase, making it impossible for the common man to
own a house. And it looks like this will continue long into the future, so that
not only past crimes but future ones will also be whitewashed and the country
will always be poor, with no possibility of improvement in health care, education
and infrastructure.
By providing amnesty to tax thieves, the government is
encouraging corruption, instead of trying to eradicate it. And it is not being
fair to honest tax-payers, who pay up to 35% tax on their income, while those
crooks who do not pay their taxes are being rewarded every
couple of years by availing the fruits of amnesties. Will this not make honest
people feel that they are fools, because those corrupt people who evade taxes
will never be punished?
To put things in perspective, look at how India has treated its
tax thieves. Black money holders first had to pay 45% to whiten
their ill-gotten wealth. Then the government demonetised high
denomination notes of Rs500 and Rs1,000. Recently, the Indian government imposed a 50% penalty on
black money, with the tax evaders having to deposit money for four years and
another 25% into a government fund to help the poor.
This is how nations become great, and whatever you say about Narendra Modi, he
is at least sincere to his country and doesn’t want it to become a failed state. Our shameless leaders on
the other hand, are bent upon destroying Pakistan. Instead of demonetising
currency notes of Rs 5,000, and prize bonds of up to Rs40,000, they are
encouraging corruption by rewarding those who have milked the country dry.
I know it is useless to ask people like Ishaq Dar and Nawaz
Sharif to think of the country’s future – they are only there to enrich
themselves – but what about Imran Khan? Why has he not said a word against
this wholesale and open robbery, which will ultimately do great damage to the
country? I thought he was against corruption, but by being silent on this
issue, it seems he (or his cronies) will also benefit from this scheme.
Come on,
Mr Imran Khan, speak up; fight this bill, go to the courts and get it revoked.
Otherwise, history will remember you as just another crooked politician of the
country.
Engineer,
former visiting lecturer at NED Engineering College, industrialist, associated
with petroleum/chemical industries for many years. Loves writing, and (in the
opinion of most of those who know him), mentally unbalanced. He tweets
@shakirlakhani (twitter.com/shakirlakhani)
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