‘PML-N’s silence over video is questionable’

Provincial minister says Sharif family creating problems for itself by narrating false stories

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Mian Aslam Iqbal has said the silence of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on their own video was questionable. Shehbaz Sharif should break his silence and face the facts, he added.

He expressed these views in a statement issued on Sunday. The provincial minister maintained that Maryam Nawaz has forgotten that lies have no feet to stand on. “Putting the blame of the video on one another is ludicrous,” he said.

He further said the Sharif family was creating more problems for itself by narrating false stories every passing day. “The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is waiting for legal proceeding from Khadim-e-Ala against Daily Mail for the publication of news regarding misappropriation of funds allocated for flood-stricken people.”’

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He was of the view that hundreds of lies were being narrated in order to conceal one lie of corruption. “How come Sharif family has multiplied its assets? The nation wants to know this fact. How come one have money trail found being involved in money laundering crime.”

He claimed that when they are accounted for looted national money, they put a cloak of innocence. “Plunderers of national wealth should remember that they can only get off scot-free when they return the looted money of the poor people of this nation.”

The war of giving narratives has reached up to party leadership among the ranks of PML-N, he concluded.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 26^th, 2019.