Govt announces commission to probe ‘foreign conspiracy’
The government announced on Thursday that an inquiry commission would be set up to look into the foreign conspiracy to topple the Pakistan Tehrik-e-insaf (PTI) government alleged by former prime minister Imran Khan.
However, PTI instantly rejected the proposal and said that a judicial commission should be formed instead of an inquiry forum.
Information Minister Maryyium Aurangzeb announced at a presser that the inquiry commission would be a non-partisan body and would be headed by an independent person. The forum would bring out the facts for the general public, she said.
She said that there was no foreign conspiracy that resulted in the ouster of Imran’s government. “The movement launched by Imran is just meant to save Gogi (Farah, friend of his wife Bushra Begum.)”
Aurangzeb said the terms of reference for the inquiry commission would be approved by the federal cabinet. She alleged that Imran “sold out” Kashmir to India.
The minister said the previous government
PTI rejects proposal, says judicial panel should be formed instead of an inquiry commission; Imran says opponents ‘preparing material’ for his character assassination
failed to prove any corruption against the Pakistan Muslim League-nawaz (PML-N) leaders although it had arrested a large number of them and kept them in jail for a long time.
She said that the PTI was engaged in hurling accusations over the government just to save its skin from the accountability that it would face in the days to come for the corruption its leaders commited.
Aurangzeb said that the schedule of public rallies announced by the PTI was a reflection of its failures while being in government for nearly four years.
Earlier, Imran Khan has claimed that his opponents have hired companies which are “preparing material” for his character assassination.
He expressed those views during an interview to a TV channel with actor Shaan Said. The actor asked Imran about marketing companies being used in politics and fith-generation warfare.
Imran’s remarks came as Pti-linked social media accounts have warned supporters of the dangers of “deepfake,” videos which use a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning to create life-like but fake videos of people.
“I had to face mafias, the biggest of which is the Sharif mafia; they always atack on a personal level because they have been indulging in corruption for the past 35 years. When someone points out their corruption, they atack a person’s character,” Imran said.
He said that his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith was also targeted in the past and a campaign was run against her accusing her of being part of the “Jewish lobby.” He said that a false case was also filed against her accusing her of exporting antique tiles from the country.
The former premier said that the Sharifs had made preparations to launch a character assassination drive against him. “Now that Eid is over, you will see they are fully prepared for my character assassination. They have hired companies that are readying the material.”
He added that 60 per cent of the federal cabinet was out on bail. “The father (Shahbaz Sharif) is on bail and so is the son (Hamza Shahbaz). Maryam Nawaz is also out on bail and Nawaz Sharif has been convicted while his sons have fled abroad. So what other defence will they have?”
Imran said that in a democracy, they were required to give an answer for the allegations levelled against them. “You can’t come up in any democracy if you are out on bail; you can’t get any position.”
The PTI chairman claimed that instead of giving an answer for the billions of rupees they had stolen, the Sharifs would now focus on his character assassination. “What was Jemima’s crime? She was my wife; now they have found Farah Khan. Farah’s crime is that she is a close associate of Bushra Begum (his wife),” he said.
He said that the Sharifs had also made further preparations and “made tapes” similar to the ones of former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar and late Judge Arshad Malik. “This is mafia style. I only want the nation to understand that if you want to smear anyone’s name, there are companies that can help you to achieve this.”