By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said the government was ready to hold dialogue with the serious leadership of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance not with the political interns like Maryam Nawaz and Bilawal Bhutto.
Addressing a news conference here, the federal minister said the Prime Minister, Imran Khan has already expressed his agreement to come to the negotiating table with the mature leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N).
“The government has already decided the forum and agenda for dialogue; the forum for the dialogue will be parliament and agenda will be electoral reforms”, he said.
The minister stated that dialogue was not possible with the political interns who did not know about history of the country that how it was created and never read a single book.
“Serious leadership of the PDM alliance has to come forward and take charge to initiate dialogue”, he stressed.
Criticizing the Sundays PDM meeting at Larkana, Chaudhry Fawad said this meeting was a matter of disgrace for PP and PML-N but “neither those (PPP) who called them (PML-N) in the meeting were ashamed nor those who attended the meeting”. During the 1979 Marshal Law, Mian Nawaz Sharif (the then right hand of General Zia-ul-Haq) and his family were among those who distributed sweets. Similarly, PML-N distributed sweets when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged. While now they all together marked the death anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto during the public meeting which was ridiculous, he said.
The federal minister also criticized the leadership of PDM alliance for not uttering a single word for the seven martyred soldiers in Balochistan on Sunday.
He said PDM has provided a stage to these so-called nationalists who were continuously speaking against army and judiciary.
“Interestingly when Sharif family goes to Punjab, they raise slogan `Jaag Punjabi Jaag’ while pay tribute to Benazir Bhutto when are in Interior Sindh.
They praise of armed forces in front of army and malign the same army in front of Narendar Modi”, Chaudhry Fawad said, adding “they change their colour like Chameleon”.
The opposition alliance, he said, was continuously targeting Punjab, federation, army and judiciary in their speeches.
The federal minister said the political interns Maryam Nawaz and Bilawal Bhutto wanted to get first jobs of their life as Prime Ministers.Maryam Nawaz did not run even her own kitchen in her entire life as she lived in her father’s house. While Bilawal who never contributed in any field in his whole life was now submitting his Curriculum Vitae to become Prime Minister, he said.
