Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Dr Shireen Mazari on Saturday called for the establishment of a judicial commission to investigate continued allegations from some quarters against state institutions.
Dr Mazari accused the government of continuously hurling accusations against PTI over its “peaceful dharna” and for trying to link it to some grand conspiracy involving the military, specifically the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The purpose is clearly to malign both the PTI and a strategic organisation of the state, she added in a statement.
Mazari said the PTI is fed up of such dangerous and debilitating games that the PMLN is playing, especially at a time when the military is involved in successful operations against terrorism.
Mazari said that although the PM has contradicted Environment Minister Mushahidullah Khan’s claims, this game of accusations about the PTI dharna being part of a conspiracy by the ISI to bring down democracy and then some weak contradictions flowing from other members of the cabinet – this time the PM himself – is becoming absurd.
“PTI has had enough of these shenanigans and we demand a commission be set up immediately to probe into these allegations. If anyone is found guilty of such a conspiracy they should be severely punished and if those making the accusations are exposed as liars then they need to be removed from office and politics.”
PM must end playing good cop, bad cop:
Meanwhile, PTI leader Asad Umar asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take a clear stance and appropriate action in wake of the allegations levelled by Senator Mushahidullah Khan against former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam Abbasi.
In an interview to BBC Urdu, Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan had alleged that the “former head of ISI had devised a conspiracy to remove the elected government”. The senator’s allegations were denied by both the government and military hours after the interview went live.
PTI’s Asad Umar took to twitter to term the denial by the government insufficient, saying if the allegations levelled by Mushahidullah proved to be true, the former DG ISI and his accomplices should be tried for “planning and encouraging an act of treason”.
Umar said if the accusations against the former ISI chief turned out to be false, Mushahidullah should be sacked from his job as the minister and ousted from the party.
In another tweet, Umar said similar allegations had been earlier levelled against the DG ISI by the Defence Minister Khwaja Asif and hence it was time this trend was put to rest.
The PTI leader then stressed that the prime minister could not continue the “good cop bad cop drama” and said he should clear his stance by taking action against his ministers for levelling false allegations if he disagrees with them.
