After PPP, PML-N will also abandon support for Fazlur Rehman: Rasheed
Last updated on: 21 September,2019 06:18 pm
"We are standing with our Kashmiri brethren," he said.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed said on Saturday that propaganda campaign was being embarked against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
“Friendship of China and Pakistan is greater than [the altitude] of Himalayas,” he remarked, while commenting on bilateral relations between the neighbouring countries.
Regarding the longstanding dispute of Kashmir between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, the minister affirmed that Prime Minister Imran Khan would present the issue in front of international community during his address to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
“We are standing with our Kashmiri brethren,” he said.
Commenting on the political rivalry amongst parties in the country, Rasheed told the media that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has abandoned its support for Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Fazlur-Rehman “for playing the card of religion in politics.”
“Both the PML-N and the PPP cannot function with Fazlur-Rehman […] as he has some other objectives.” “A message has been sent to Fazlur-Rehman to not place his foot at a hotspot,” Rasheed said, adding that the message was conveyed via Abdul Ghafoor Haideri.
“We are the soldiers of ‘namoos-e-risalat’ (honour of the prophethood) and we have spent jails for it […] I have fought namoos-e-risalat’s case in the National Assembly,” the veteran politician stated.
“Shehbaz Sharif’s political career is under trial […] he is supporter of negotiations [between opposition and the government] and making them successful,” he further said, adding that he has been telling this for three months that Shehbaz was a member of his party.
Rasheed termed Shehbaz as “a man with flexibility who has been trying to find a middle way.” He warned that those who had plundered national exchequer could also be arrested in London.
About Afghan Taliban peace talks, the federal minister asserted that Pakistan has been facilitating the dialogues in every possible manner.