Imran Khan criticises Pak govt over new investment schemes

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan today criticised Pakistan government's new investment and amnesty schemes calling it a "money-whitening" proposal.
"The announcements are nothing but an opportunity for people with black money to turn their money white. This is a money-whitening scheme," Khan told reporters.
In a bid to attract investment, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday announced a slew of measures and amnesty schemes, including a promise to hold no probe into source of investment made in green field projects.
"Amnesty schemes have been introduced earlier also. Only the people who break laws and don't pay taxes benefit with all this," Khan said.

He said that if things go on like this, then the rich will get richer and the poor poorer.
"There will be no middle class," said Khan.

The chief of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf said his party would organise a "huge protest" on December 22 in Lahore against price rise.
Speaking about last night's drone attack in North Waziristan, he said, "This government, like the previous one, has come up because of international agenda. The PML-N government is in cahoots with the US".
"Now it is clear that a big game has been played in the country and this government was brought in. PML-N government's Information Minister speaks like the spokesperson of the US State Department," Khan said.

He reiterated his earlier stand that there was "fraud" in May 11 General Elections, which saw PML-N government sweeping to power.
Meanwhile, the workers of ruling parties in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province gathered at Hayatabad's Toll Plaza area in Peshawar to participate in a sit-in against NATO supplies that entered its seventh day today.
Khan had declared that his party had decided to stop NATO trucks to and from Afghanistan through Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa till a complete halt to the US drone attacks in the tribal areas and the province.