Information minister explains about ‘aliens’ in media talk

LAHORE: Commenting on her party’s frequently-used term against their detractors in disguise, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb remarked that ‘aliens’ are those who sent 13 prime ministers and presidents packing throughout Pakistan’s 70-year history.

Talking to media in Lahore, the minister said ‘Aliens’ have the people’s mandate in their hands and they are the ones who have sent home 13 reigning prime ministers and presidents.

She said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) should not have the license to shame politicians just three months before election.

The minister said that money laundering allegation against thrice-elected former prime minister Nawaz Sharif by NAB on the basis of rumours is absolutely ridiculous in view of the fact that the State Bank of Pakistan and the World Bank contradicting the story.

She said that taking notice of fake news by the NAB Chairman was very disappointing.

Marriyum said that corruption of not even a single penny had been established in the six references that were filed against Nawaz Sharif because of which further extension in the trial period was being sought. Responding to a question she said that a precedent had been set in the country to abuse and denigrate anybody at any time coincided by a media trial.

The minister claimed that the only crime of Nawaz Sharif was that he was a popular leader and the people had thrice elected him as prime minister of the country adding that wherever he went he was followed by the masses. She said what was being done to Mr. Sharif amounted to ridiculing the mandate of the people and that detestable act must come to an end.

Marriyum said that the cases against the Sharif family were quintessential of political vendetta and Nawaz Sharif had to endure two years of a tedious trial. The minister said that in spite of all those machinations, Nawaz Sharif would emerge triumphant in 2018 elections because the mandate of the people was not under the control of any body.

She asked Imran to tell the people in his public rallies what he had done during the last five years.

Replying a question she said that the opponents could only hurl allegations against them but could not say even one sentence about their own performance.