Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had been mislead by Brigadier Samson Sharaf on the issue of 35 punctures and it is about time for Khan to careful of the Delilah in his own ranks, said Federal Minister for Information Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Saturday while talking to journalists at an Iftar dinner hosted by senior journalist and Pakistan Today Editor Arif Nizami at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal.
Senator Rashid quoted the Biblical parable while referring to Khan’s confused state of mind in which the PTI chief ascribed one story after the other to different persons.
When asked about Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri, Rashid said Dr Qadri was moving forward to the Itikaf and it was presumed that a person prayed for other’s good while at Itikaf rather than resorting to other worldly things.
“I pray that the PAT chief returns safely to the country of his nationality (Canada) after sojourn in Pakistan,” he remarked.
To a query, the information minister said no Pakistani had any right to interfere with another country’s affairs as we don’t want anyone to poke nose in our internal affairs.
FO IN TOUCH WITH KSA OVER ZAID HAMID CONVICTION:
Responding to a query on Zaid Hamid, the minister said that the Foreign Office (FO) was in contact with the Saudi authorities on the issue of a Pakistani citizen’s conviction. Vis-a-vis, MQM chief Altaf Hussain, Pervaiz said, “As per my information, Altaf Hussain has adopted British nationality”.
He said the government was in touch with the British authorities and information was being collected.
ECONOMY IS IMPROVING:
He hailed the news items published in the international and national dailies regarding the boom in country’s economy, adding that Pakistan’s economic growth had been ranked ahead of India by the international economic journals while Pakistani stock exchange was amongst the top 10 stock exchanges of the world.
He said Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves had reached the highest mark in country’s economic history, adding that the people, who forecast 2015 as the year of default for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in the past, were praising good omens today.
The minister said the PML-N government took pride in the fact that economic reforms of the government in 1993 were hailed by the world economic bodies and India had desired to introduce the same economic model in its country.
Regarding the formation of a new political party under the leadership of former President Pervez Musharaf, Pervaiz said the political parties could not be formed overnight although parties did come into being in Pakistan, adding that the formation of a political party was the right of all.
About politicians switching parties, he said the PML-N had always stood ahead in terms of votes and fielding candidates in elections, adding that political birds keep migrating for gains or in search of some ‘Ali Baba’.
To a query, he said it was not the time of political gatherings and processions but performance, adding that the 2018 general elections would be contested on the government’s performance while the PTI had failed to deliver in KPK.