ISLAMABAD: Minister of state for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb while talking to the media outside the parliament house here on Saturday said that an attempt was made to oust the name of PML (N) from the elections but the Nawaz Sharif led party which enjoyed support of the people and blessings of Allah would invariably emerge triumphant in every election.
The minister in a statement lambasted Imran Khan for not casting his vote in the senate elections saying that he was fond of giving examples about democracy in other countries but did not turn up in the parliament to cast his vote in deference to democracy in his own country, which had exposed his double standards and political hypocrisy. She said that a person who did not have any respect for the sanctity of vote and parliament wanted to become Prime Minister through the same vote& legislature.
Marriyum said that on the one hand Imran hurled insults at the parliament and on the other hand was contesting elections to become part of the same august house. She asked as to how he was making his party members to contest elections when by not voting he had degraded the sanctity of his own vote? The MOS asked as to what message he was trying to convey to the people and voters through his hypocritical stance?
She said that Imran cursed the parliament but was striving to have his party men elected to it. However he considered it an insult to vote for his own party which was very shameful, she added. The MOS said that Imran’s staying away from voting was a link in the same chain of conspiracy when in 2014 an attempt was made to orchestrate the fall of the parliament through sit-in. The minister said that Imran should now wait for the decision of the people through their thumb impressions instead of finger of the umpire.
While talking to media outside the Parliament MOS said that wherever Nawaz Sharif went people in thousands followed him because they knew that he had served the masses. The minister said that two years had passed but they could not ferret out any corruption against Nawaz Sharif.
The minister said that Imran Khan who had to explain his position regarding submission of fake NOC was terming his own assembly members as saleable commodities yesterday. She said that he was hurling allegations against his own party men adding that a person who sent curses on the parliament would have no consideration for the parliamentarians. Marriyum said that in the ensuing elections the decisions would be made by the thumbs of the people and not the finger of the umpire. The MOS said that the PTI members would have to answer the allegations of their leader. She said that Imran Khan convened a meeting in KPK yesterday and it would have to be found how many members attended it?
The minister said that never in the history of any country an elected Prime Minister had been ousted on the basis of ‘ Iqama’ She claimed that nothing incriminating had emerged from the evidence that was stacked in the JIT boxes and all the verdicts were based on the proposition as to why Nawaz Sharif did not draw salary from the company owned by his son.
Published in Daily Times, March 4th 2018.
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