PPP govt was a total failure against security threats: Nisar
Says his opponents deliberately distorting facts to create chaos and achieve selfish ends.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk)- Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan rebutted criticism from the opposition in Senate over the handling of the Sikandar standoff in Islamabad.
“Those who criticise the government should first answer for the years they have stayed in power,” he said.
“Just one incident occurs and they term it ‘failure for the state of Pakistan’. You have every right to criticise us, the government, but how can you call this one-off incident as failure of the state?”’
The minister of interior further accused his opponents of deliberately distorting facts to create chaos and achieve selfish ends.
About Zumurad Khan he said he admired his courage but PPP was making him controversial by portraying him as a saint or hero.
Nisar reminded the PPP Senators about the major security failures during the 13 years in which opposition parties were in power, specially mentioning the attacks at the GHQ, Salmaan Taseer and the assassination of Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti.
He said Islamabad stand-off was not a security failure and incident was overblown by media, adding Islamabad was not paralyzed because of one man with two guns.
“Only one major road was blocked. The rest of the city was open as normal. People would not have been able to arrive at the site of the incident if it weren’t.”
Nisar said that despite all of Zamrud Khan’s bravery, what he did was wrong and uncalled for, and he should not be hailed as a hero.
“After Zamrud lunged onto the man, it was one of the bullets fired from his gun which ricocheted off and injured his wife.”
Earlier, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had a tough day in the Senate on Tuesday when opposition members bombarded him with pointed questions on the Islamabad incident.
The seventeen questions thrown at him by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani were particularly vexing.
