ISLAMABAD – PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claimed that thegovernment didn’t arrest the leaders of banned outfits but took them into“protective custody” to save them from Indian jets.
“They have been taken into protective custody so that the Indian planesdon’t blow them up,” Bilawal told reporters in Islamabad on Wednesday.
The PPP chairperson was commenting on federal government’s recent crackdownagainst banned outfits, including Jaish-e-Mohammad and Jamaat-ud-Dawah.
On February 26, Indian planes violated Pakistani airspace and dropped theirpayload in Balakot before fleeing back to India.
The Modi government said that the planes were there to target a seminarylinked with Masood Azhar’s JeM.
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The government has taken into custody hundreds of members of bannedorganisations, including Masood Azhar’s brother and other relatives in thelast two weeks.
The PPP chairperson also lashed out at the National Accountability Bureaufor “making cases to control the politicians.”
Bilawal and his father Asif Ali Zardari recorded their statements at theNAB office in Islamabad Wednesday morning. They were interrogated for anhour and a half.