PML-N making national institutions controversial: Rashid

Responding to Maryam Nawaz’s press conference after the arrest of Shehbaz Sharif by NAB, Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid hit hard at the PML-N vice-president saying that she was making the national institutions controversial and that a compromise on the state security would never be allowed.

He said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had decided to spend the rest of his life in London.

Addressing a news conference in the federal capital, Rashid said the PML-N vice-president’s entire speech was against the judiciary, NAB, Asim Bajwa and him.

“In the whole press conference, Maryam did not tell why the bail of his uncle [Shehbaz] was rejected. The decisions, which are in their [PML-N] favour are accepted and those, which are not, are rejected by them,” he said.

Rashid maintained that the Nawaz league would neither resign from assemblies nor it would bring a no confidence motion.

He claimed the PML-N had been waiting for an NRO for the last one year but when the party came to know that no deal will be struck its leaders started giving anti-state statements.

“Those who want to create chaos in the country are the enemies of CPEC. We will never allow any compromise on the security of our country,” he said.

“An S [league] will come out of the N [league] and time will prove it,” he added.

“My questions have not been answered yet. Nawaz Sharif should tell who was involved in the character assassination of Benazir Bhutto and how much money did [he] take from Osama Bin Laden? Nawaz was also behind the Dawn leaks.”

The minster said that a case under Article 6 should be registered against those who had spoken against the armed forces of the country.

He observed that the Pakistan Army had fought a busy war against the terrorists and that the PML-N wanted to destabilise the internal security of the country at the behest of foreign powers.

He said the opposition was aiming to fail Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Senate elections and declared that if the premier wins majority in the upper house their politics would come to an end.

The railways minster remarked that Nawaz Sharif was presenting the stance of India in his messages and added that he had decided to spend the rest of his life in London.

He recalled Sharif had met Indian premier Modi in Raiwind and now he was raising the slogan of “give respect to the vote”. He asked the PML-N chief to give respect to the courts saying that a person who had been declared an absconder had no right to sit abroad and claim to be a champion of democracy.

“People were taken in buses to attack the office of the chief justice whereas the planning for pelting stones at NAB office was done in London,” he said. Reiterating the government’s stance, Rashid said that the army and government were on the same page and that those who had looted the country would be in jails by December 31.