ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Monday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan was now running away from accountability.
Talking to reporters, she said that Imran Khan was trying to obtain a stay order against the proceedings started against him in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
“Instead of answering questions about his off-shore companies and foreign funding for his party, he is seeking stay orders. He also avoids attending the hearing of disqualification petition against him being heard by the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC),” he said.
She said that holding of “unimpressive” public rallies was a ploy to distract attention of the public from his misdeeds.
“Imran filed incorrect details about foreign funding for his party, his assets and off-shore companies,” she said.
She urged the media to cover the case against Imran Khan in the same way as the Panama case was reported.
“Imran had been relishing the spectacle of denigrating state institutions, hurling unsubstantiated allegations against his political opponents and even using foul language against them,” she said.
She said even the ECP had categorically said that Imran had been guilty of ridiculing state institutions. “Echoes of anti-Imran slogans resonate throughout the country,” she said.
The minister pointed out that Imran had the habit of throwing false and concocted allegations against his opponents and then apologising in court.
Marriyum claimed that Imran Khan and his party had failed to deliver in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last four years. “Installation of wi-fi systems at the police stations does not change anything or makes police apolitical,” she said.
The minister said that by now, people had become fully aware of which party had performed and delivered to the masses and which one had wasted four years in negative politics.
“Therefore the people of KP will take their revenge from PTI in the next general elections,” she said.
The minister said that Imran Khan neither aspired to serve the masses, nor had any interest in supporting the process of development and elimination of corruption from the country,
“Otherwise, he will have focused on doing something for the people of KP,” she said.
She said that Imran had been raising the issue of corruption in all parts of the country, but had closed the Accountability Commission in KP. “Imran is holding very small rallies in the Punjab and Sindh. He does not pay any attention to the problems of the KP people,” she said.
She said that he had held a public rally in Sialkot and must have felt ashamed after seeing the development undertaken by the Punjab government there.
