Senator Danesh Kumar highlights lawmakers’ difficulties to open bank accounts
Senator Danesh Kumar has highlighted the difficulties and complicated procedures for lawmakers to open bank accounts for themselves and their family members.
ISLAMABAD: Senator Danesh Kumar has highlighted the difficulties and complicated procedures for lawmakers to open bank accounts for themselves and their family members.
Senator Danesh Kumar said during an informal talk with the journalists that all politicians were apparently criminals before the bankers as they give a list of questions regarding their businesses, properties and sources of earnings.
He criticised whether it is a domain of banks or the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to question the details of properties and other assets.
He detailed that he faced difficulties to open a bank account of her wife and failed many times. Kumar said that his wife censured him for failing to open a bank account despite being a senator.
On a lighter note, Senator Kumar said that he was forced to get a bank insurance policy to open the bank account just to prove himself before his wife or he would not be able to get a meal at the house.
“Even any politician in the country can face such a situation at his home. A politician cannot even open a bank account of his son aged above 18.”
He said that banks were telling them to get a clearance certificate from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Earlier, Senator Danesh Kumar censured the officials of the central bank during the session of the standing committee on finance, saying that bank accounts of politicians’ children are not being opened.
He said that he is still going here and there to restore its dormant account but he found no solution. Kumar said that the election commission ordered to open a new bank account but a politician could not open the bank account.
