Senator Osman Saifullah in a statement issued from his office on Monday said that former president Ghulam Ishaq Khan had no role in distributing money to politicians to form IJI against PPP. Osman Saifullah Khan, who won the Senate seat from Islamabad on a PPP ticket in 2012, is son of the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) president Anwar Saifullah Khan and grandson of former president of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan. He said that the court decision in Asghar Khan case was ample proof that some elements committed foul play for letting down PPP and the people’s will. He said that the court verdict was widely praised.
The decision reminded everyone that all the citizens of Pakistan were bound to act in accordance with the constitution, he said. The judgement made it clear that the people had the right to determine the interest of the country and neither the Army nor the Supreme Court could claim this right, he added. “I have found the events of the last eight months, culminating in the recent short order deeply distressing. My grandfather left office in 1993 and passed away in 2006, spending the intervening 13 years living quietly at his Peshawar residence. I do so wish that during this time he had been confronted with the allegations against him. Some part of media as well as political leaders had pointed fingers towards him. The inordinate delay in the dispensation of justice denied him justice. His reputation has summarily been executed,” the senator said.
