ISLAMABAD:Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting FarrukhHabib said on Friday that the lawmakers’ vote was the trust of theelectorate and turncoats who betray them by violating party directivesshould be barred from contesting elections.
Talking to media outside the Supreme Court, he said that thepresidential reference was in front of the Supreme Court and thepeople want an answer to this question. Those who have looted national wealth were now facing cases in courtsof law and society has rejected such elements.
He said that billions of rupees were transferred here throughcharacters like Pupper Wala, Faluda Wala, Maqsood Chapardassi by thebigwigs of the opposition. Farrukh Habib said it was a strange spectacle that there was no caseof corruption against the Prime Minister whereas those who tabled noconfidence movement were all corrupt.
Speaker National Assembly, he said, did not commit any violation ofthe constitution and the opposition was making hue and cry which wasmanifestation of their frustration. If the opposition had the required support for no confidence motion,then why were worried, he asked.
Farrukh Habib said first the opposition tried to get rallies bannedthrough the courts and now they had changed the date of their ownrally. “No one will attend the opposition public meeting, on the contrarythere will be a sea of people in the PTI meeting on March 27,” saidFarrukh Habib.
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About PTI’s allies, he said the alliance was established three and ahalf years ago and they were still part of the coalition cabinet andthey were still in the alliance. “We are not against no trust motion,” he said, but the questionarose if Pakistan’s democracy could be hijacked by a few billions ofrupees. No trust motion on the basis of horse trading was against thespirit of the democracy”, he remarked.
He said that Imran Khan believed in fighting till the last ball, andthere was no question of resignation and the NRO gang would bedefeated and truth and justice would emerge victorious. He said that PTI was holding rallies in different parts of thecountry, and such rallies on one day’s notice was not an easy task.
Public opinion must come to the fore as every political party canexercise its democratic right, the minister added.
