Peshawar: The accountability committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf established to prevent corruption in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has completed the investigation against Speaker Provincial Assembly Babar Saleem Swati and declared all the allegations against him false and baseless and has given him a clean chit.
After receiving a clean chit from the accountability committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Babar Saleem Swati has said that party leader Azam Swati is a born liar, I am not used to conspiracies, if the founding chairman or provincial president orders, I will resign in five minutes.
He said that at the time of government formation, Chief Minister Sardar Ali Amin Gandapur called at midnight and informed about making him the speaker, the members of the accountability committee Qazi Anwar Advocate are very respected and Shah Farman is our senior, he is satisfied with his one-year performance as speaker.
Babar Saleem Swati said that after 51 years, by preparing an act for the assembly secretariat, the powers of the speaker have been reduced.
Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Babar Saleem Swati said that Azam Swati made allegations of corruption against me during a speech in Mansehra after his release from jail, after which I wrote a letter to the Chairman PTI and the Chief Minister to investigate the allegations.
He said that Azam Swati then submitted the above allegations in writing to the Accountability Committee. Initially, his allegations were related to corruption in Mansehra, but the written application mentioned the use of powers in the Assembly Secretariat, illegal appointments and promotions.
The Accountability Committee admitted that all the work in the Assembly Secretariat was done under the Act and Rules. The inquiry has now been closed due to lack of evidence of corruption.
The Speaker said that instead of the work that could not be done for fifty years, we made the Assembly Act in a short period of six months, which should have been appreciated. The Assembly members, relevant departments, and the National Assembly Secretariat worked hard in making the act.
The Speaker KP Assembly said that Azam Swati is a compromised person, who knows who is behind it? I never lobbied or tried for the position. When I was being made the speaker, I was asleep when Ali Amin Gandapur called and told me that you were being made the speaker. When I came as the speaker, I saw that the assembly secretariat had a chaotic environment with rooms.
He said that things became binding with the Assembly Act and that earlier the speaker himself used to fill the posts of grade 17 or above. Now these posts will be filled through promotion.
Babar Saleem Swati said that I am a man of the party line, I am in the convoy of the Murshid, if the party chairman or provincial president sends a message now, my resignation will be on the table within 5 minutes.
He said that in the Kohistan corruption case, NAB has recovered up to Rs 26 billion, this corruption has happened with the connivance of three departments and the National Bank, our job is not to investigate but to look at the institutions, if the Auditor General of Pakistan conducts a ten-year forensic audit of the institutions in the context of the Kohistan scandal on the orders of the PAC, then everything will be fine.
Earlier, Special Secretary Syed Waqar Shah informed the journalists in detail about the Assembly Act.
Meanwhile, the report of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Internal Accountability Committee’s investigation into recruitments and promotions in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has also come to light.
According to the committee report, Speaker Provincial Assembly Babar Saleem will review all measures in accordance with the party manifesto, he is not legally subordinate to anyone. According to the committee report, the committee cannot give any orders to the Speaker Provincial Assembly, the Speaker should issue orders that are in accordance with the party manifesto and the vision of the founder PTI.
The committee report recommended that the Speaker review the recruitments, promotions and appointments to non-gazetted and gazetted posts during his tenure.
