CONDEMN, REJECT AND DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN MADE BY A SHIA RAFIZI ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO: Unprecedented political corruption: 2008–2013 Yousaf Raza Gillani became the first head of state to be convicted while holding office and later disqualified on charges of loan defaulting. In 2012, Transparency International (TI) calculated that Pakistan had lost more than Rs 8.5 trillion (US$ 94 billion) in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance in the PPP-led coalition government from 2008 to 2013. Adil Gillani, an advisor for TI Pakistan observed that if Pakistan checks the menace of corruption and ensures good governance, it would not require a single penny from the outside world. The 2008–2013 PPP-led coalition government is criticised as being the most corrupt in the countrys history.[32] The free and powerful local media in Pakistan exposed various cases of corruption during the governments tenure including cases of bribery and corruption in government-owned enterprises like Pakistan International Airlines[33] and Pakistan Railways.[34] On 29 March 2012, a civilian resident of Johar Town Lahore, Tariq Ahmed, filed a court petition in the Lahore High Court, seeking to hear the case of disqualification of prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.[35] The plea was filed in the High Court in which the petitioner took the stance that Fauzia Gillani— spouse of prime minister Gillani received loans of millions of rupees from the Agriculture Development Bank Ltd (ADB) and the National Bank of Pakistan for the two mega-corporations owned by the Gillani family of which Fauzia Gillani served both megacorporations as executive director. None of the loans of millions of rupees were paid back to the banks.[35] When the disqualification petition was put to rest by the ruling of the Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza citing that the petition did not hold ground, Gillani was convicted on the charges of Contempt of Court. Gillani became Pakistans first prime minister to be convicted while holding office[36] and was later sentenced and disqualified. Gillani is prudently criticised for a prolonged era of stagflation, in which fundamental economic problems were ignored, government was mismanaged and corruption was endemic.
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