Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Pervaiz Rasheed, said that former president and Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari delivered his statement based on ‘misunderstanding’ or ‘wrong information’.
Pervaiz Rasheed was responding the series of allegations levelled by the coalition partner, Asif Ali Zardari, which expressed his outrage over allegedly targeted PPP and Sindh bureaucracy by the federal government.
He clarified that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had summoned report regarding Dr. Asim Hussain before release of Zardari’s statement. He added that the federal rulers have respected Zardari and the PPP co-chairman’s statement was result of ‘misunderstanding’ or ‘wrong report’. He said that the arrested persons in Karachi would reach back to their homes if cases against them proved false.
He said that PM has always implemented ‘Charter of Democracy’ till yet who was signed between Nawaz Sharif and slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. He added that the federal government is not willing for any avenging action nor it did in past. He said that the government is neither authorised to impose penalties nor to dissolve punishments as national institutions have strengthen their roots in the country.
Pervaiz Rasheed said that Asif Ali Zardari was not an active politician who could be slotted for avenging moves, however, it would be proved through time that ‘word of revenge is not present in the dictionary of PM Nawaz Sharif.’
He reiterated that ‘Karachi Operation was commenced after consultation of all political parties, whereas, major achievements were being grabbed by Pakistan military during ongoing Operation Zarb-e-Azb which brings full confidence of whole nation over its military troops.’
While commenting over Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, Pervaiz Rasheed claimed that Imran Khan wanted to flee from by-election through unnecessarily demanding resignations of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). He added that Imran Khan was feared of humiliating defeat in upcoming by-polls. He said that the PTI top head accepted election results of Haripur and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province just because of grabbing major victories by his political party. He alleged that Imran Khan wanted to make election controversial by politics of allegations.
