PDM treads a dangerous path of chaos: Shibli
Faraz described the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government as a “democratic dispensation”
Information Minister Shibli Faraz. SCREENGRAB/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Information Minister Senator Shibli Faraz said on Saturday the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders were treading an undemocratic path to dislodge a democratically-elected government by creating chaos in the country through their protests.
Addressing a joint press conference with Kashmir Affairs Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Faraz said that the opposition alliance wanted to come into power by toppling the government through unconstitutional and undemocratic means.
“The 11-party alliance, which is known as ‘PDM’, is only ‘democratic’ by virtue of its name, but its narrative has nothing to do with the democratic norms,” Faraz said. “The PDM’s narrative is ridiculous,” the minister added.
Shibli asks PML-N to hand in resignation
Information minister claims PDM has lost its steam; has nothing left to say
Information Minister Shibli Faraz. SCREENGRAB/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Minister for Information Senator Shibli Faraz has asked the PML-N leadership to take practical steps and hand in resignation from the legislatures instead of “wasting the nation’s time” and making “hollow threats”.
“After its flop show at the Minar-e-Pakistan, the opposition has lost its steam. Their announcement to hold an inflation march after a long march is a manifestation of their shrinking and retreating agenda.
“The PDM [Pakistan Democratic Movement] has nothing left to do or say,” the information minister said in a series of posts on popular micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday.
In this file photo, a student points out the picture of his friend, who was killed in the militant attack, outside the Army Public School, Peshawar in 2014. INP
As the country marked the sixth anniversary of the Peshawar Army Public School (APS) carnage on Wednesday, politicians – both from government and opposition – paid homage to the families that suffered in the heinous 2016 attack in which 131 school children and 10 others lost their lives.
The attack had shocked the entire nation as terrorists stormed inside the school and fired at children who were attending classes at the time.
Recalling the incident, President Dr Arif Alvi said it had brought the nation to tears. These flowers laid their lives & brought focus of the nation to suppress terrorism with all its might. I thank them, he said.