Pak Army was not and will not get involved in politics: Sheikh Rashid

Islamabad, 28th December: Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed rained down on the opposition parties on Monday while addressing media.

Baaghi TV: Sheikh Rashid Ahmed stressed that the Pakistan Army was not involved in the country’s politics in the past nor would it be in the future.

Sheikh Rashid questioned why the leaders of the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) did not take the name of Gen Zia-ul-Haq when they talked about the alleged role of the army in politics.

He said, “They polished Zia-ul-Haq’s shoes. They are a product of General Headquarters gate number four. Pakistan Army is a great army. It was not in politics, is not and will not be in politics. It was with democracy, is with and will be with democracy.”

While addressing the media on Monday, Sheikh Rashid was referring to the PDM’s power show in Larkana a day earlier in which PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto said that the opposition had united on PDM’s platform to rescue the country from the government’s alleged inefficiencies.

Maryam Nawaz, PML-N Vice also lambasted the selected government of Prime Minister Imran Khan. As per reports from the Dawn News, she said, “When political parties started completing their terms, some forces to whom ‘divide and rule’ suited started getting restless. Then we saw former ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha set up a party by collecting political trash named the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, and that party was then used in dharnas and conspiracies against your elected government.”

She said while politicians were given death sentences and faced character assassinations, those who committed much severer offences such as “breaking the country and the Constitution, losing Siachen and the Kashmir cause, violating one’s oath to interfere in politics, having political rivals killed, and committing corruption worth billions” were not held accountable.

Rashid said that the government would decide on its response when the PDM announced the date for its long march. “Imran Khan can take any decision. We have not held a meeting on how we will set up welcome camps for them.”

He added that the opposition’s fight was more against the NAB (National Accountability Bureau) instead of Imran Khan, as they just want to end the investigation in their corruption cases.

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