ISLAMABAD
Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif Thursday said the accountability of the perpetrators of May 9th mayhem would reach to its logical conclusion as it was a matter of sanctity of the martyrs’ and 240 million Pakistanis’ pride in their Armed Forces. The Defence Minister termed the attacks on military installations as tantamount to country enmity. Khawaja Asif said the Armed Forces and civil law enforcement agencies are fighting the war for the country’s survival and rendering sacrifices every day during the ongoing war on terror.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) deliberately damaged the prestige of the state institution under its inimical motive, he alleged. The Defence Minister accused the PTI for making the Army Chief’s appointment controversial whereas the appointment was the only prerogative of the Prime Minister.
“I have been four times part of the process as the defence minister which was never influenced by any entity as it was the then PML-N government’s vision to appoint the most decorated soldier as the Army Chief,” he said. He said the PTI former chairman orchestrated a new narrative of “absolutely not, and no to slavery”, but his party leaders were meeting with the US Ambassador and hiring lobbyists to beseech them for relief.
The Minister also lambasted the PTI members of the Parliament for obstructing proceedings of the House under their political motives to benefit their detained party founder. He accused the PTI for hatching out the conspiracy against the state institutions in the past years and termed it as a planned activity and not an abrupt or new move.
