Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider said Monday that he was ‘hurt’ by the sedition FIR lodged against him and other leaders of the PML-N, adding that if he was summoned for the probe, he would go in handcuffs. ‘I was hurt when I got to know about the [sedition] FIR,’ he said, speaking to media. ‘If three-fourths of the PDM’s representatives are Modi’s agents, then a question is raised on Pakistan’s existence.’
Haider said that he had not asked anyone to exclude his name from the FIR, adding that the development was ‘unfortunate’. ‘If I am summoned for the [sedition] probe, will arrive in my government car with handcuffs on,’ he said. Saying that he would live and die in Pakistan, the AJK prime minister said that Pakistan was where his future lay.
He said that his spirits would not be lowered, adding that his affiliation with the country would further strengthen.
He said that it was not possible for a common man to have included such provisions in the sedition FIR. ‘They didn’t even have the courtesy to apologise to me over a telephone call,’ he said. Haider said that the prime minister of Pakistan, regardless of whoever assumed the mantle, was respectable in the eyes of the AJK government.
