ISLAMABAD: Marriyum Aurangzeb, the minister of information and broadcasting, stated on Friday that condemning the events of May 9 was insufficient and that Imran Khan needed to own up to his mistakes.
She responded to Imran Khan’s remarks by claiming that he had defamed the nation while in power and continued to do so with all of his actions and movements even when he was not in office. The minister claimed that in addition to fabricating the cipher story, he had defamed the nation by selling the watch that Saudi Arabia had given him as a gift. The information minister claimed that Imran Khan defamed the nation by attacking national landmarks and martyrs’ monuments after he left office.
The minister said that condemnation can neither hide the crime of May 9, nor the culprit. She said Imran should admit that he was the mastermind behind the open terrorism of May 9 and the desecration of martyrs’ memorials planned by Imran.
She advised Imran that he should confess that he planned to burn down hospitals, schools, mosques, ambulances and the Corps Commander’s house.
Imran Khan should hand over the terrorists hiding in “heaven of terrorism”, Zaman Park to the law enforcement agencies. A person who instigated his followers to throw bombs, bullets and stones at the police cannot get away with just condemnation. Punishing those who attack the state is not a violation of human rights anywhere in the world, she maintained.
Marriyum Aurangzeb said that attacking hospitals, schools, patients, ambulances, and burning animals alive were violations of human rights, adding that punishing these savages was not a violation of human rights.
She said that arresting daughters-in-law, daughters and sisters of political opponents in false cases by the fascist was a clear violation of human rights.
Kidnapping Tayyaba Gul and keeping her in the Prime Minister House was also violation of human rights, she remarked.
She said that imprisoning, shooting, kidnapping, breaking ribs and nose bones of journalists for telling the truth was also a violation of human rights.
Recalling Imran’s statement after Hazara killing, she said that it was a violation of human rights to tell the families of Hazara martyrs that “I will not be blacked by funerals”.
