Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has reiterated that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is ready to hold unconditional talks with opposition.
Talking to media in Lahore on Saturday, he said that President Dr Arif Alvi is trying to facilitate the talks. He said that the practice of filing false cases against the political opponents should be shunned. He said that the cases against PDM leaders are being disposed of on merit.
Interior Minister said that British based newspaper Daily Mail tendered apology for filing the baseless story against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the PTI leadership should also apologize. He said that PTI leadership is bent upon destroying the country for securing its politics.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader distanced the government from the cases against Swati.
Sanaullah said that the senator maligned the army and judiciary and not the government.
“If we wanted to file cases against them [PTI leaders] or wanted to treat them how they treated us. We would have filed cases of heroin against them,” he said.
The interior minister added that the cases are being filed against them in accordance with the law. “Recently, the Balochistan High Court quashed cases against him. On the other hand, we have fought our cases for years,” he said.
Moving on to the alleged audio leak of former finance minister Shaukat Tarin, Sanaullah said that the former finance czar “talked about sabotaging” the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme.
“They don’t have the power so they are bent upon destroying the country’s economy,” he said.
“Why shouldn’t the cases against the members of the coalition government be closed since they are being closed after litigation?” he asked.
Referring to the defamation case against the UK paper related to corruption allegations against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Sanaullah said that the newspaper Daily Mail accepted its fault and apologised for it.
He claimed that the newspaper made that mistake at former federal minister Shahzad Akbar’s behest.
“Imran Khan leveled false allegations against others while he himself was involved in corruption,” the minister alleged, adding that they should also apologise to the nation for false cases.
Sanaullah says PDM ready for unconditional talks with opposition
