ISLAMABAD, May 1: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that the people are facing high inflation and unemployment in the country due to incompetence of former prime minister Imran Khan.
Addressing a news conference on Sunday, the information minister said that Imran Khan put his political opponents in jails and detained them in death cells but he could not prove anything wrong against them in the court of law.
She said that Imran Khan failed to prove a single penny of corruption, money laundering and misuse of authority against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) during the last four years.
She said Imran Khan remained busy in using National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and other government authorities to victimise political opponents and did not pay any attention to mitigate the sufferings of the people of Pakistan.
The minister said it is the people of Pakistan, who through their elected representatives, voted out Imran Khan from power. She said what an irony it is that Imran Khan is defending his front-person Farah Gogi, whose assets surged to billions of rupees.
Talking about the corruption of Imran Khan, Aurangzeb said that Imran Khan retained gifts from ToshaKhana as well as an expensive BMW vehicle worth Rs150 million. She said a pistol gifted by a foreign dignitary was even not listed with the ToshaKhana and Imran Khan retained that with him illegally.
Mentioning a recent incident at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, the minister said indecent sloganeering made on the behest of Imran Khan. She said that Imran Khan is involved in inciting violence in the society. She said she is an eyewitness that people sent by Imran Khan were inciting others to raise slogans and hurl abuses on her in the courtyard of Masjid-e-Nabvi.
Highlighting the successful tours of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Aurangzeb said for the first time Islamabad and Riyadh are going to forge a strategic partnership. She said Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is still staying back in Saudi Arabia to finalise the future framework of cooperation between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
She alleged that Imran Khan is not digesting the reception and warmth accorded to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during his visit to KSA and UAE.
Answering a question, the minister said the law will take its course if anyone violates the law. -NNI
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