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Saturday, June 15, 2013
PPP dares PML-N to try MusharrafBy Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday threw down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asking him to publish the Abbottabad Commission report, shoot down drones and prosecute former military dictator Pervez Musharraf for treason, to fulfil the pledges he made before coming to power.
Addressing a press conference, PPP Secretary General and former Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa asked Nawaz Sharif to publish the report on the Abbottabad operation in which al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was hunted down by the US whose forces intruded into the Pakistan airspace in the dark of night. “Mian Nawaz Sharif used to say that he would implement this commission’s report. Now the time has come to fulfill his promise,” Khosa remarked.
He asked what was stopping Nawaz from shooting down the intruding drones despite being the prime minister now. Khosa recalled that Nawaz had also pledged to prosecute Musharraf and should honour his commitment now. He also lashed out at the PML-N government for presenting what he termed an anti-people budget and said that the government has “slaughtered the masses” by presenting such an unjust budget.
The PPP general secretary also termed the imposition of increased GST before the passage of the budget an unconstitutional and illegal step which, he said, also breaches the privilege of parliament. He was also sceptical about the hearing on the increased GST by the Supreme Court on June 27. “Chief Justice took notice of this increase. However the hearing would be conducted on June 27,” he said. Khosa asked Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to set up a camp office at Minar-e-Pakistan against electricity outages just as he used to do when the PPP was in power.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk