Says Gen Munir not willing to sit with Imran
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that the elections will take place in the country on completion of constitutional tenure of assemblies as per the law.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, she said the coalition government is holding a peaceful protest today against the constitutional violations taking place in the country. She said our workers are disgruntled over some of the recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
“We have dealt with such economic conditions always, when Nawaz Sharif came to power and we dealt with it recently in 2013 also,” she remarked.
“We have the experience; the intention and we have the will to put the country on an economic and development path and we are busy doing that.”
Referring to Imran Khan, she said that only one person who is a “fascist and believes in violence and who incites the mobs” was responsible for the present condition of Pakistan.
Replying to another question, she said the present regime inherited highest inflation and the country was at the verge of default which we saved.
The minister said Imran Khan had signed an agreement with the IMF, and violated all the agreement conditions and when the PDM came in power, the IMF programme was suspended which it was renegotiating.
Imran Khan had put the country at the risk of default and the present government had saved it, she added.
Marriyum said “We are negotiating with the IMF because the credibility of the country is at risk as Imran Khan’s legacy of economic destruction has played havoc.”
The minister said the government had nothing to do with Imrna Khan’s arrest, he was arrested by NAB according to the law where he was being investigated in a corruption case related to Al-Qadir University.
She said that many notices were sent by the NAB but Imran did not respond.
The minister said that the NAB team went to Islamabad High Court where Imran Khan was appearing and arrested him and later the IHC declared that it was a legal and lawful arrest.
” It was also endorsed by the Accountability Court later so it was all done through NAB which arrested him and he had to answer which he did not of course and what happened we all saw”, she said.
Marriyum said that when he was in the government, the opposition leaders who used to ask questions, the first two rows in the Parliament were in death cells in jail.
She said when the media used to ask questions, a leading media house owner was sent to jail and was silenced.
She said that the report of ‘Reporters Without Borders’ had called Imran “a media predator” and this was his four years legacy.
The minister said that when Imran Khan lost power he was being questioned on different corruption cases under investigation in the Federal Investigation Agency.
She said that there was a pattern that happened in the last 14 months, when police took a warrant by the court to Imran Khan at Zaman Park, he resorted to violence and used women and children as human shields to protect himself.
At Zaman Park, the police personnel were welcomed by petrol bombs, and then there was May 25 last year when he announced the long march and incited violence calling workers to come out on streets, bridges were broken, buildings, metro stations and buses were attacked, she added.
She said the judicial complex was attacked when a judge summoned him in a corruption case trial which was under investigation. “Same pattern happened and everything was broken including doors, windows and cameras of the judicial complex”, she maintained.
