Khursheed Shah slams Chaudhry Nisar over ‘baseless allegations’

SUKKUR: Reacting to the press conference of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, Opposition leader in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah on Thursday said he never resorted to any point scoring that he is being accused of.

At a press conference, Khursheed Shah said he did not do any point-scoring and only said what was right. “It appears as if it has become the government’s habit to level baseless allegations against others,” he added.

Without naming Chaudhry Nisar, he challenged him to prove what benefit he might have derived from the so-called point-scoring and he would quit politics for good.

“How could an ailment come in the way of condemning the attack (on Charsadda University),” he wondered, adding he (Chaudhry Nisar) could have invited PTV for a minute and condemned the attack.

The opposition leader said he would give his reply to the allegations leveled against him in the Parliament before the Prime Minister.

He said whenever the government was in trouble, he and his party came out to save the system for the sake of democracy. “I or my party did not save the government, we only saved the democracy,” he added.

PPP is not reacting to the arrest of Dr Asim Hussain. “His case is being handled by the courts and we have nothing to do with it,” he added.

“It seems as if only one person knows how effectively the National Action Plan (NAP) has been implemented while the entire media, intellectuals and parliamentarians are ignorant,” he said.

He said whatever this one person says only reflects a mental sickness.

Earlier, Chaudhry Nisar addressing a press conference said: “Incidents of terrorism in the country have gone down after launch of operation Zarb-e-Azb and NAP.”

He said those who had never read the NAP were criticising it, adding that constitutionally law and order is the responsibility of the provinces.

The Interior Minister accused Khursheed Shah of getting incentives from the incumbent government.

He also admitted that there was a ‘Muk Mukka' (secret give-and-take) between Pakistan People’s Party and the incumbent government. He said it is the same ‘Muk Mukka’ that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) accused them of.

Nisar said Pakistan is winning the war on terror by the efforts of military but losing it on psychological grounds.