Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on Sunday slammed the opposition’s All Parties Conference (APC), with Federal Minister for Marine Affairs Ali Zaidi stating that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had “declared war” against the nation.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Senator Shibli Faraz minutes after the APC, termed the meeting a “flimsy attempt to put pressure on the govt to back off on accountability”.
“Nation has witnessed that the opposition has used politics for personal gains and used the parliament to protect their personal empires. Imran Khan will never comprise on his commitment to [eradicating] corruption/ Hence no NRO,” he added.
Federal Minister for Marine Affairs Ali Zaidi said: “Today, Nawaz Sharif has declared war with the entire Pakistani nation!”
“He says that his feud is not with Imran Khan, it is with those who brought [him] to power. [PTI] has come to power with the votes of 17 million people … not with the help of a ‘chit’!”
‘People did respect the vote and used it wisely’ Slamming Nawaz, Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar said that the PML-N leader must recognise that the “people actually did respect the vote in the 2018 election and used it wisely”.
“The result was that as soon as [Nawaz] was relieved of power, he had to hatch a scheme and flee the country,” he said.
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said: “One more episode of the ‘abbu bachao’ (save our fathers) campaign has flopped. What better proof of media freedom than the fact that Nawaz’s speech was shown live.”
Chaudhry, responding to Nawaz’s remarks regarding Pakistan being subjected to military rule for 33 years, said the PML-N supremo “was himself a part of the system for 15 years and served as a puppet”.
Meanwhile, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail said that he had now “understood the nature of Nawaz’s illness” and that the disease “befalls those who loot the nation’s wealth and flee”.
“The patient instead of providing a money trail lashes out at NAB,” he said, adding: “Imran Khan appears in [such patients’] dreams and leaves them in a fearful state”.
Listing “signs” of the opposition’s “panic”, Senator Faisal Javed said that the government had worked to uplift several sectors of the country and that the PTI had inherited the “worst economic crisis”.
