Murad says no nefarious drive stops him from speaking against corruption & corrupt people

Federal Minister for Communication and Postal Services Murad Saeed has vowed to continue his struggle against corruption and corrupt politicians despite their ongoing nefarious campaign being launched against him.

He said this while addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday.

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It is pertinent to mention here that Murad Saeed has registered a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency’s Cybercrime Wing against owner-Editor of Daily Jinnah and Online News Agency Mohsin Jamil Baig, who allegedly used a bad language against the federal minister in a  programme of a private news TV channel recently.

The Islamabad police on Wednesday arrested Mohsin Jamil Baig from his house on this account.

The minister maintained that the same immoral drive had also been launching against him since 2013 when his party PTI awarded him a ticket for contesting the 2013 general elections, adding that as he talked about the corruption and corrupt politicians in the National Assembly, so people like Qadir Patel, Rana Sanaullah, Maulvi Hamdullah, Agha Rafi and others had been fielded to launch a wicked campaign against him and his family.

Murad said that he would not be scared of such tactics, adding that he continued his struggle for exposing corrupt people before the nation.

He said that his opponents always accused him of using abusive language but when he asked them what bad names he called so they had no answer and they just said that he called someone “Farzand-e-Zardari” (son of Zardari) in a private TV channel programme.

He recalled that he had been making a long political struggle for the last 13 years and started his politics from grassroots level, adding that he commenced his politics when he was student and he was the president of PTI students’ wing.

He asserted that he did not get political successes because of his family background and did not become a politician overnight (apparently referring to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and PML-N Vice President Maryam Safdar).

He recounted the successes of his ministry and claimed that after 13 years, Pakistan Postal serveries ranking improved by 32 levels and international institutions acknowledged its performance.

He asked his opponents if they wanted to hate him they could but “don’t hate the employees of the NHA and Pakistan Post”.

He further said that Motorway police for the first time used drone technology for surveillance of motorways, adding that his ministry had completed 13000 kilometres’ road mapping and achieved 88 targets and improved the condition of highways and motorways across the country.

He asserted that the revenue of the NHA had increased by 128pc under his ministryship.

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On the base of these performances, I has stood the first and awarded first prize by Prime Minister Imran Khan.

He cannot allow anyone to make personal attacks against him and his family, adding that his critics can raise questions over his performance, he said.

Later answering to questions of mediapersons, the minister admitted that the condition of all roads have not been improved as much as they should have been carried out, adding that he and his ministry were making efforts to bring improvement in this connection.