Security plan designed to harass, not protect Ijaz: Zulfiqar Khosa

Khosa crticises PTI, says tsunami brings destruction, devastation and can never be used for the welfare of the people.


Tariq Ismaeel/owais Jafri January 25, 2012

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader  and Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Zulfiqar Khosa says that the security being offered to Mansoor Ijaz by the government is designed to harass him rather than offer protection.

Talking to the media after the inauguration of a developmental project in Dera Ghazi Khan, Khosa said, “It’s the judiciary’s obligation now to provide him the required security to let him present his evidence before the court before and safely return to his homeland.”

Regarding the upcoming national elections, the senior PML-N leader remarked that the Chairman of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) did not have a clean record and did not deserve to be the head of the ECP. Khosa added that the demand of an independent election commission was first raised by PML-N and that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was just following them by demanding the same.

Talking about the 'tsunami', a word that has become associated with the PTI recently, Khosa said that, “I can only pray that Allah saves our country from a tsunami. Tsunami has been always used for destruction and devastation and it can never be used for the welfare of the people. This tsunami today, coined in our country, will be the destruction of our country and we will resist and save our country from it.”

He further added that, “revolution is simply to bring change in the country and it will only be brought by the PML –N because we want to serve the people of Pakistan and that change is actually to encourage the culture of serving the people of Pakistan, not the vested interests of the politicians and political parties.”

Speaking about he elections and the change of government, he said, “The next government, whether a coalition government, has a bleak future only due to corruption and mismanagement of the current government. The government is breathing its last in terms of financial management due to loans, it can go bankrupt any time.”

He further said that it was the duty of the federal government to keep a check on the activities of banned militant and religious organisations and to monitor their activities.

“It is the duty of the federal government to restrict them. The reason being that they are banned by the federation and it is their duty to ban the growth of these organisations in the country, but the federal government has been sleeping. Provinces are not independent and federation gives them instruction to control the growth and expansion of banned militant and religious organisations in the provinces."

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