The PML-N has always been a rightest outfit supporting extremist ideologies in the country. Lately PMLN leaders had been trying to give an impression that it is a national party and against Talibanisation. But as said in Urdu, “Dil kee baat zabaan par aa hi jaati hai.” And they are doing it on purpose. They support right wing ideologies because they get support from that side. I wounder why the PMLN leaders are never threatened or attacked by terrorists when leaders and activists of PPP and ANP get killed in terrorist attacks. Its time the nation recognize the real face of people like PMLN, JI and obviously the confused Imran Khan, who are dragging the country towards Talibanisation. These forces, teamed up with certain media groups, pseudo-intellectuals and the so-called independent judiciary and certain lawyer gangs, are diluting the society and the biggest threat to a liberal democracy.

It is just like emptying our own garbage bin in front of our immediate neighbor’s home and say ‘that’s not my problem’. When the garbage pile increases to a bigger heap and smells out, it becomes a problem for the whole neighborhood, INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO INITIATED THE FIRST PROCESS.

If PMLN thinks, that chanting slogans of solidarity with extremists and cultivating such factors to find some political favors from a DISEASE, then they must have forgotten the recent history OR there must be a bigger filthy plan of controlling such elements for political success, nationally or internationally. In politics, parties use to keep PET hoodlums or bullyboys to control various threats against them during their political life. Currently the biggest bully or awesome factor is the extremist and their banned status, so PMLN is shaking hands with them. The disease of extremism was created and nurtured by the creator of PMLN, so these two factors are pretty much acquainted to each other since quite a long time.

But again they are or who ever is trying to get political favors from these elements, is ignoring the above example yet again, that the garbage pile will smell out and the disease would swallow up them as well.

* PML-Q parliamentary leader says Punjab CM’s statement was an ‘irresponsible act’

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Despite a wave of anger among various political parties over the Punjab chief minister’s controversial statement, Pakistan Muslim League leader says Shahbaz Sharif does not need to tender a public apology.

PML-N lawmaker Khurram Dastgir said the statement by the Punjab CM was quoted out of context, therefore, it was widely misinterpreted. Dastgir said there was on need for Shahbaz to seek apology to the nation, as his statement was misquoted.

Irresponsible: PML-Quaid (PML-Q) Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat termed Shahbaz’s statement an “irresponsible act”.

“On one hand, the PML-N says that terrorism is the main cause of instability in the country and vows to root it out, while on the other, its president speaks on behalf of the Taliban,” he said.

Faisal said that being the president of a major national political party, Shahbaz should have not singled out Punjab at a time when the subject of provincialism was already hot. “Such a statement by a man who is wearing two crucial hats is tantamount to weakening the federation, as it sends negative signals to other provinces,” he said. He said the PML-Q had already submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly on the Punjab CM’s statement, which would be entertained by NA Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza on her return to the country.

Senator Zahid Khan of the Awami National Party said no one should compromise with terrorists, as their existence meant instability and turmoil in Pakistan. “Punjab is the home of jihadis and no one should shut his eyes to them,” he said.

Members of the NWFP Assembly belonging to the PPP, ANP and the PML-Q have demanded that Shahbaz should apologise to the nation on his statement. Speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Bushra Gohar of the ANP also sought a public apology from the Punjab CM.

The MQM’s Abdul Qadir Khanzada said that Shahbaz’s statement was regrettable. “At a time when the whole nation is fighting against terrorism, any statement that gives the impression of support for the Taliban hurts the feelings of the masses,” he said.

Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Liaqat Baloch said almost all political parties had been toeing the lines drawn by former president Pervez Musharraf regarding the war on terror. A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf spokesman said that Imran Khan had made an objection over Shahbaz Sharif’s ‘plea’ of sparing Punjab.

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