Mazari demands commission to probe Mushahidullah’s accusations

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Dr Shireen Mazari Saturday accused the government of continuously hurling baseless accusations on the party over its peaceful dharna, trying to link it to some grand conspiracy involving the military, specifically the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
She called for setting up a commission to investigate the matter after the statement by Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan against former ISI chief.
“The purpose is clearly to malign both the PTI and a strategic organisation of the state,” she said in reaction to a chain of statements by the government functionaries.
Mazari said the PTI was fed up with such dangerous and debilitating games that the PML-N was playing, especially at a time when the military was busy in successful operation against terrorism.
She pointed out that the latest accusation had come from the Senator Mushahidullah in an interview given to foreign media outlet, thereby ensuring that PTI and the Pakistan Army were maligned internationally.
“While the whole nation has condemned the MQM’s attack on the Army, members of the government are indulging in the same game,” she alleged.
Mazari said that although Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had contradicted his minister’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 prime minister himself – was becoming absurd.
“PTI has had enough of these shenanigans and we demand a commission be set up immediately to probe these allegations. If anyone is found guilty of such a conspiracy, he should be severely punished and if those making the accusations are exposed as liars, they need to be removed from office and politics,” she said. Mazari reminded that Imran had repeatedly explained the reason for the PTI dharna.