Summary At least 82 percent of the PTI members do not pay income taxes, says Pervez Rashid
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Minister of State for Privatization Muhammad Zubair on Tuesday has said that secretary general of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Jahangir Tareen did not pay his loans back which are worth at least Rs 24 crores and 70 lacs and got a way out without paying his loans back in the former president Pervez Musharraf’s era.
He expressed these views in a combined press conference with Minister for Information Pervez Rashid in Islamabad.
He accused Tareen of writing off his loans saying that he did not have any bank balance in the 90s decade but now he owns billions of rupees.
Zubair asked that how an ordinary bank officer could become a billionaire in a period of ten years?
On the occasion, Pervez Rashid accused Tareen of using the funds for rural development for his sugar mills during his service tenure as minister.
Rashid also said that 82 percent of the PTI members do not pay income taxes.
He asked PTI chairman who urges others to keep businesses and politics apart to answer about the future of Jahangir Tareen who has evaded heavy taxes.
Zubair also professed that some government officials are also included in the list of income tax absconders.
However, he said, the source of income of most of the government officers is agriculture.
