PTI launches aggressive social media campaign against PML-N

Shows contradictory statements by members of Sharif family

ISLAMABAD: PTI launched on Monday an aggressive social media campaign after it released a 20-minute-long documentary against PML-N’s political hierarchy to serve as an exposé of the “lies of the Sharif family” while the Panamagate case is still pending in the Supreme Court.

The documentary showed contradictory statements made by members of the Sharif family, including the Prime Minister, spanning over the past two and a half decades.



A picture posted by the party showed Imran Khan watching the documentary which he tweeted four times via his official twitter account.

The PTI chief also directed his party’s media strategy committee to arrange for the documentary to go viral on the social media.

“A combo of Sharif lies and Noon [PML-N] … An eye opener on how our people have been taken for a ride,” Imran Khan tweeted.

In another tweet, he maintained that the documentary was breaking all records of viewership.

The documentary started with the PM’s video statements in which he had categorically denied making any deal with former military ruler Gen (retired) Pervez Musharraf, assuring him that Nawaz himself and his family would stay away from Pakistan’s politics for 10 years and spend this period in exile.

“I will not deceive my countrymen. My love for Pakistan does not allow me to sign any paper as part of the exile deal,” PM Sharif asserted, while in the lower half of the screen, one can see a document signed by Nawaz Sharif himself and statements of foreign dignitaries who acted as guarantors in this saga.

The background tune at the start is a hit song of the mid-90’s ‘Mr Fraudiay’.

“Neither the Army sought any mediatory role nor the government asked the Army to intervene,” Nawaz was seen as saying in the National Assembly in 2014. The speech was delivered as Imran Khan’s PTI staged a sit-in in Islamabad.

The statement is followed by a tweet by the DG ISPR dated August 29, 2014 that stated: “The COAS was asked by the government to play facilitative role for resolution of current impasse in yesterday’s meeting at PM House.”

The documentary also mentioned the Asghar Khan case in which Nawaz Sharif denied receiving funds from the ISI to destabilise Benazir’s first government, but subsequently an affidavit was submitted by a former ISI chief in the Supreme Court, stating that Nawaz Sharif was given Rs3.5 million in this regard.



Contradictory statements of Nawaz Sharif during lawyers’ movement in 2008, footage of the attack on the Supreme Court in the late 90s, Nawaz praising former military ruler General Ziaul Haque and cursing ZA Bhutto, but later he was praising Bhutto and cursing army generals for their role in the creation of Bangladesh are also part of the documentary.

The documentary ends with contradictory statements of Nawaz Sharif, his wife, children, and PML-N cabinet members about the Sharif family’s flats in London.

It also mentioned a letter penned by a Qatari prince which was recently submitted by the PML-N in the Supreme Court.

The documentary titled ‘Jhooton Ki Dastan’ (A Tale of Liars) ends with “A thousand lies are needed to hide one lie” written in bold letters on the screen.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2016.