Marriyum says Senate, general elections to be held on time

• State minister questions as to who is calling a cleric from Canada on important occasions

ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that contrary to the rumours, the forthcoming Senate and the general election would be held on time.

Referring to the anti-government movement announced by Tahirul Qadri, she said that democracy would continue gaining strength and the people would not forgive the elements who were trying to foment anarchy and chaos in the country.

Talking to the media outside the Ehtesab Court here on Tuesday, she said that an elected prime minister who was sent home and given the epithets of ‘God Father’ and ‘Sicilian Mafia’ was appearing before the court, whereas nobody was taking notice of the open threats of a person to orchestrate the fall of the elected government, forcing the elected representatives to resign and creating chaotic condition.

The state minister posed a question as to who were the ‘unknown’ powers, ‘God Father’ and ‘mafia’ which invariably called the cleric from Canada on important occasions to do their bidding. She said that attempts were in the offing to nudge the fall of the provincial government in Balochistan. By joining the dots of events unfolding one after the other, the people could understand the game that was being enacted by these elements, she said.

She said they should do away with the illusion that they would be able to harm anything by spreading lawlessness in the country as the people would not allow them to do so. During the last four years, the PML-N government had delivered and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the chief minister of Punjab were striving to uplift the country with utmost dedication and patriotism, she said.

Be it terrorism, a building of infrastructure, a revival of the economy, education, health and other services, the government had effectively delivered in all those domains, Marriyum said. “Qadri scampers back to Pakistan from Canada in a night on a signal from his mentors and travels back to Canada with the same speed by winding up his pursuits,” she pointed out.

She said that the state institutions and people should take due notice of the Canadian citizen, who has come to Pakistan and was threatening to choreograph the fall of the elected prime minister and a chief minister. She said that Qadri and the elements who were thinking on those lines were actually the enemies of Pakistan and its people. She said that such traditions must end now.