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Friday, December 02, 2011
PPP criticises Nawaz, SC over memo hearing
* Babar Awan questions formation of commission by SC
* Says Nawaz pitching institutions against each other
By Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: Terming the petition of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in memogate scandal an attack on President Asif Ali Zardari, the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday blamed the top leadership of the opposition party for repeating the drama of ‘Agartala conspiracy’.
Addressing a press conference following their meeting in the Presidency, the PPP leaders, led by Senator Dr Babar Awan, took to task Nawaz Sharif and other PML-N leaders for labelling the elected president as a traitor.
Federal Religious Affairs Minister Syed Khursheed Shah, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdaus Ashiq Awan, PPP’s Central Information Secretary Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira accompanied Dr Babar Awan in the press conference.
The PPP leaders pointed out that the Protocol Department of the Supreme Court received the Sharif brothers when they came in the apex court for the memogate fiasco.
Awan, in his hard-hitting style, stopped short of even criticising the judiciary when he questioned the formation of a commission by the Supreme Court under the chairmanship of former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general Tariq Khosa to investigate this matter. “The formation of the commission purely rests with the executive,” Babar pointed out and vowed that they would not allow the surrender of powers of the executive and supremacy of parliament.
Addressing PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, Babar stated: “A political leader could not be terminated by labelling him as traitor” and asked Nawaz Sharif as on whose behest he had labelled an elected president a traitor.
Awan declared that Asif Ali Zardari was not an individual but the continuation of Bhuttoism.
He also accused Nawaz of pitching the national institutions against each other to take the revenge of his political defeat at the hands of the PPP and President Zardari.
Babar said that Zardari would not flee the country rather he would fight or die.
He said that it should be probed as who had established a “traitor manufacturing factory” in Punjab and felt that the PPP negated all such conspiracies, which were hatched to declare the politicians as traitor.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk