*ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Information andBroadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that the government hasdecided to conduct a forensic audit of the controversial videotape, sharedby Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz toclaim Nawaz Sharif’s innocence in the Al-Azizia corruption reference – tocheck its authenticity.*
“Action will be taken against the media house, where the video was edited”,she said while addressing a presser in Sialkot.
The accountability court judge [Arshad Malik] had termed the video as “fakeand baseless.”
“This government doesn’t put its responsibilities on the shoulders ofothers,” she said, adding baseless accusations were being made againstgovernment institutions.
She called the press conference ‘ridiculous’, and said they had wasted thetime of the public by forging the facts.
She said all kinds of ‘tools’ of deception are contained in the box of thewoman [Maryam Nawaz].
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Furthermore, she stated that the group of deceivers has been continuouslyinvolved in deceiving the general public.
“Every [political] party has its code of conduct and ethics…, lamenting hishelplessness, the chairman of the party was cornered,” she said.
“Maryam Nawaz is the champion of liars…she subjected her party to a‘suicide blast’…It was just a stage for political point-scoring.”
She said it has always been the hallmark of the PML-N to target, challengeand malign the state institutions such as the judiciary. She said throughsuch cheap tactics, they could not escape or avoid accountability.
