ISLAMABAD: The statement
by Pervaiz Rashid prompted former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar to issue a strong-worded response.
“Don’t know why some people put the blame of their faults on the Inte
rior Ministry. It seems that they are obsessed with the Inte
rior Ministry and the former interior minister,” Nisar was quoted as saying by his spokesperson.
In a statement issued through his spokesperson, Nisar said
that Rashid should have elaborated what type of “help” he was expecting from the Inte
rior Ministry.
Rashid avoided answering exactly why he was removed from his o
ffice but said that his sacrifice was for democracy. The senator’s statements came at a time when
Nawaz Sharif and the PML-N have been openly criticising the Supreme Court’s Panamagate verdict, hinting at a conspiracy and supposedly on a mission to protect the sanctity of the ballot.
In a recent interview,
Nawaz Sharif had said, “When Musharraf imposed martial law, he and a few of his [fellow] generals were against me – not the entire army. The army was not even aware that martial law had been imposed.”
Published in Daily Times, August 19th 2017.