A Twitter spat broke out between Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stalwart Ahsan Iqbal following their press conferences in wake of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s conviction.
As per the details, the war of words began on Twitter after Iqbal rubbished Fawad Chaudhry’s claim that he was General Zialul Haq’s “mentee”.
Iqbal clarified that he had got admission in UET, Lahore in 1976 when Gen Zia was not the ruler.
Liar Information Minister: For your info when I got admission in UET, Lahore in 1976, Gen Zia was not the ruler and I was admitted in Mechanical Engineering on open merit seat. Your lies are known to whole nation. Pity the government whose Info Minister is a pathological liar.
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) December 25, 2018
“I was admitted in Mechanical Engineering on open merit seat,” Iqbal said and called the information minister a “pathological liar”.
Striking back, Fawad Ch shared a screengrab of the Wikipedia profile of the former interior minister. The page claimed that Iqbal was introduced into the right-wing politics by General Ziaul Haq.
Irony:) son of Ms. Nisar Fatima is disowning Gen ZiaUlHaq … @ijazulhaq sb Gen Zia b assman pe sochtay hoon gey kis tarah k loogoon pe ehsaan kia:) Fact is had Gen ZiaUlHaq been not ruling you guys would have been Retiring as clerk from Govt Service pic.twitter.com/VibCWqiMvl
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) December 25, 2018
He went on to criticise Iqbal for being “ungrateful” to the former military dictator.
