GILGIT:
In his latest criticism of the ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief said on Wednesday that the government was only interested in “political point scoring.”
Talking to the media during a news conference in Skardu, Nawaz Sharif said the rulers visited Giari only after his visit. He went on to accuse the government of not being interested in addressing public issues, but in “political point scoring.”
The former prime minister was on a two-day visit to the world’s highest battleground, where 138 soldiers and civilians are still trapped under an avalanche that descended upon them more than 10 days ago.
“Tell me, if any perpetrators of the recent violence have been arrested yet,” he questioned referring to sectarian clashes, adding that the government should also take action against the killers of journalists Wali Khan Babar and Saleem Shahzad.
Nawaz was accompanied by Senator Mushahid Ullah, Marvi Memon, Mehtab Abbasi and Pervez Rasheed.
After the press conference, he also addressed a gathering of religious leaders of various schools of thought and party workers in Skardu. Continuing his verbal onslaught, Nawaz said the present government’s four years brought nothing but price hike, unemployment and lawlessness.
He mocked the government’s call for a Seraiki province, saying that the government was not really concerned about the welfare of people.
About the plight of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan, Sharif said: “I think they are being victimised for voting the PPP into power.”
He promised that his party would take up the issues faced by the people of G-B.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2012.
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The Supreme Court has the final authority to interpret laws and adjudicate disputes and theoretically could have disqualified the Prime Minister if it saw fit. The judgment of the Supreme Court, once passed, is final and should be unconditionally obeyed by all concerned. However, one needs to assert respectfully, yet firmly, that the Supreme Court is not an arbiter or perhaps, even a source of our societal ethics. I have very high regard for Justice Asif Khosa, yet with respect it needs to be said that the additional note seemed to be a piece of purely political and polemical writing. The literary merits of the judgment are inconsequential as compared to the emotion providing impetus. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with political polemic and a bit of poetry; I am personally particularly prone to this scheme of writing. However there is a vital difference, the Honourable Justice is a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and sworn to being objective and restrained by those parameters.
What should we name laptop distribution and Sasti Roti Scheme. A donation to poor from Sharif family empire?
Government is doing point scoring or you are serving the nation?
And what exactly have you been doing Sir????