LAHORE:
Former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that involving the Federal Investigation Agency in the missing necklace cause showed the government’s intention of his character assassination, as per reports.
He said the controversy should have ended when he had told the government that the piece of jewelry was with him.
“Once I had told that necklace was with me the matter was resolved. Either Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or Chaudhry Nisar could have talked to me over the matter (if some clarification was still required). I think we are not strangers to each other. The controversy over the missing necklace should have been over at the first instance. But ‘my friends’ chose to continue with it by engaging the FIA which shows their clear intention that they are more interested in my character assassination and media trial,” Gilani told a private media outlet.