{"id":354659,"date":"2023-09-09T08:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=354659"},"modified":"2023-09-09T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:43:18","slug":"tax-electricity-gas-thieves-be-declared-terrorists-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/tax-electricity-gas-thieves-be-declared-terrorists-asif\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax, electricity, gas thieves be declared \u2018terrorists\u2019: Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LAHORE<br \/>\nFormer Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif says the country is under debt and bankrupt, and demanded that tax, electricity and gas thieves should be declared terrorists.<br \/>\nTaking to X (formerly known as Twitter), the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader said currently only tax cases worth of Rs2.670 billion were pending with courts. Every year billions of rupees tax evasion and theft of electricity and gas was being committed and the common man bore the brunt of this theft.<br \/>\nHe said Pakistan was under debt and bankrupt and theft of all types of state resources should be considered economic terrorism.<br \/>\nTax evaders and thieves of electricity and gas should be declared terrorists, however, such pilferers were now part of the privileged class.<br \/>\nThe former minister said the government employees who supported theft also were economic terrorists and they should face terrorism instead of general laws. Otherwise, God forbid, economic destruction would be our destiny, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Former Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif says the country is under debt and bankrupt, and demanded that tax, electricity and gas thieves should be declared terrorists. Taking to X (formerly known as Twitter), the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader said currently only tax cases worth of Rs2.670 billion were pending with courts. 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