Tallal Chaudhry criticises criteria for determining 'Sadiq and Ameen'

Shehbaz did in five months what Imran could not do in five years, claims PML-N leader

Minister of State for Interior Affairs Tallal Chaudhry on Friday criticised the criteria used to assess whether an individual is Saadiq and Ameen, and added that those, alluding to PTI chief Imran Khan, who should be stoned to death as per Islamic law are deemed pious and honest.



Addressing the media after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) acquitted Imran Khan in a case pertaining to an assault on a senior police official, the PML-N leader slammed Imran and said cameras showed that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) occupied the PTV building, but he's been conveniently acquitted.

"Imran couldn't finish the Metro bus project in five years when Shehbaz completed it in five months," the minister added. "We will bring Nawaz back in the next elections," Chaudhry promised.

"No angels will form the government, only the people of Pakistan will," he said. "The general elections are not the Senate’s floor that a few people decide where the votes will sway," the minister added.

Commenting on the recent backlash faced by the ruling party over the sexist, misogynist remarks passed by the provincial law minister, Chaudhry said, "Who says we don't respect women?"

Earlier today, ATC Judge Shahrukh Arjumand read out the Imran Khan acquittal verdict in the case. “You are discharged from the case,” said the judge.

The court had deferred the judgment on April 25 in the acquittal plea submitted by Imran and ordered him to appear in person. The judge had threatened to issue arrest warrants if Imran did not appear before the court.

Political leaders and over a hundred workers and supporters of PTI and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) were booked in the cases. The workers, who were arrested, were later released on bail.