No leniency towards May 9 incendiary, pledge PM
The PM said the country could not survive if any leniency was shown to the perpetrators of arson attacks.
“We don’t have any personal vendetta. But those who desecrated the martyrs, Ghazis, and their monuments, and burnt the Jinnah House … they will have to be tried under the law.
And if any leniency is shown to them, the country will not survive,” said Mr Sharif, making it clear that the cases pertaining to the attack on civilian infrastructure would be tried under the ATA, but those relating to the military installations would be tried by military courts.
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During his speech, Mr Sharif read out a tweet of Mr Khan in which the latter had refuted the reports that he as the prime minister had removed Gen Asim Munir, the present army chief, from the post of director-general of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) for pointing out corruption being allegedly committed by his wife Bushra Bibi.
Terming it a “blatant lie”, Mr Sharif said it was in his knowledge that Mr Khan had transferred Gen Asim only because the latter had pointed out corruption of his family members.
مجھے اور بشریٰ بی بی کو صبح گرفتار کیا جائے تو سب کو پُرامن احتجاج کرنا ہے، عمران خان
Also, Mr Sharif added, NAB arrested Mr Khan in a case involving Rs60 billion corruption.
Referring to the recent leaked audio call of Mr Khan’s conversation with a US Congress member, the PM said after undermining the Pakistan-US relations through the allegations of regime change conspiracy, the PTI chairman was begging for help from the US.
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Mr Sharif told the house that earlier in the day he had inaugurated National Games in Quetta, which were being held after a gap of 17 years. In his inaugural speech there, too, he referred to the May 9 arson attacks, stating that the miscreants torched Quaid’s house in Lahore like the terrorists had set the Quaid’s Residency in Ziarat on fire.
He said they should take steps within the confines of laws and Constitution so that such incidents could not be repeated.
