Former Law Minister and senior PPP Leader Senator Babar Awan has condemned the statement of Punjab Chief Minister about danger to his life from President Zardari and asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) to form a Judicial Commission to investigate the utterances of Shahbaz Sharif.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Babar Awan termed the statement as highly irresponsible but said the government is taking it very seriously. He said the concerned ministry has been asked to write letter to the CJP to form a judicial commission for investigation of statement on the lines of Abbottabad Operation and Saleem Shahzad murder.
Babar Awan said that PPP government was doing politics of reconciliation and not confrontation and revenge. He alleged that confrontational politics was being done by those who sent politicians to gallows, cut the tongues and involved people in fake cases and sent them behind bars for ten long years.
The former Law Minister said that there should be no place for personal enmity or hatred in democracy and national politics. He said “In the present democratic era, PPP has empowered the opposition to an extend which has no precedence in the history.”
In this connection he referred to unopposed election of leader of the opposition as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and no chairman of the PAC sub committees or member has complained that there was interference in their work. But he said that the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has alleged that the government was creating hurdles in
committee’s task.
He made it clear that the accounts considered by the PAC so far related to Musharraf era and PPP had no connection or concern with them. He also pointed out that the Public Accounts Committee has so far not seen the latest report of the Auditor General. He assured the Chairman of the PAC that the government would not create any hurdle in his task and instead facilitate the committee.
In reply to a question, Babar Awan said President Asif Al Zardari enjoys full confidence of PPP and people of Pakistan. He pointed out that the President was elected by more than 2/3 majority from six electoral colleges.
