Accusing PML-N ‘will not help PPP in Punjab’

Mushahidullah dismisses Zardari’s allegations against Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE: Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Wednesday dismissed former president Asif Ali Zardari’s allegations that Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif struck deals for coming into power.

"A party that was provided power on a silver platter should not hurl baseless allegations on the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),” he said while talking to The Express Tribune.

The senator added that despite an appalling performance, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was not only gifted with the Sindh government but also given a two-thirds majority in the province.

"Had it not been for the hidden support, the PPP would have lost not only from Sindh, but their home district Larkana too,” he said.

On the other hand, he said, the PML-N performed exceptionally well, but was deprived of its mandate in 2018 and forced to sit on the opposition benches.

Mushahidullah alleged that Zardari’s remarks showed his confusion and frustration.

The PPP started levelling baseless allegations against the PML-N on its failure to improve its position in Punjab, he said, adding that if Zardari really wanted to restore party's image, it should transfers the reigns of the party to Chairman Bilawal Zardari.

When asked to comment on Zardari’s statement, former provincial law minister Rana Sana Ullah said that he had not heard any such statement nor had he read any such statement on social media.

Similarly former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal told The Express Tribune they would not respond to such comments. "The PML-N will play the role of a big brother and ignore such trivial things. The PML-N never rode on the establishment’s back," he said.

Another senior PML-N leader said, “At times Zardari does not even know what he is talking about. One day he talks about bringing a resolution against the government, the next he offers his support to that same federal government… and few days ahead of it, he takes a shot at the leader of a political party they were trying to get into an alliance with.”

He said how the PPP could forget about the ‘nefarious’ games they played in the Senate to bring their own chairman in support of the PTI against the PML-N. He added the PPP had a long history of being the establishment's pawn. "The phrase ‘corrupt politician’ was coined in the PPP 90's tenure," he claimed.