Former Interior Minister and senior PML-N leader Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, while addressing a press conference at Taxila, urged the party leadership to stop the tirade against Judiciary and smear campaign against the honorable Judges. He said that the former disqualified Prime Minister NawazSharif ignored his sane advice and useful suggestions in the larger interest of the country and party. Hence, he relegated himself to sideline. He lamented that use of abusive language by PML-N leaders for media rating has been made a political norm and if the this issues were not resolved within the party he will use the option of mass awareness about it..The former interior Minister threatened to make the ‘Dawn Leaks’ report public.
The contents of the press conference of the senior PML-N leader reflect that the old guard of the party, comprising seasoned and patriotic and son of the soil politicians, are unhappy over the diatribe of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and a few young Turks federal ministers. Senator Nihal Hashmi has been convicted on the charges of contempt of court. Federal Ministers, Talal Chaudhry and Danial Aziz are facing contempt of court proceedings. But two other ministers are yet to mend their ways. The incumbent Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal,s’ recent outburst on Panama case verdict in Washington exhibits an unbecoming attitude of politician in a foreign country. The politicians of other countries, while abroad, do not speak about the domestic issues in line with the spirit of national dignity and patriotism. History is replete with glaring precedents that rulers held courts and their judges and Qazis in high esteem to abide by the rule of law. Even the monarchs and despotic rulers respected their courts and accepted their verdicts. But unfortunately, in democratic set up former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his public meetings and statements spares no opportunity to malign the judiciary and direct his diatribe against the honorable judges. Rule of law and respect for the Judiciary are the basic fundamentals of democracy.
Dawn leaks were a deliberate dirty trick to defame internationally an important state institution whereas the fluid situation of this region and Middle East necessitates sagacity and statesmanship. Ironically a media house which was founded by the father of Nation Quaid-i Azam in 1938 and its owners were in the vanguard of Pakistan movement presented their shoulder in this vilification game damaging the reputation of the country in the comity of nations. Former Interior Minister had rightly remarked that it highlighted the narrative of the enemies of Pakistan. A campaign of tarnishing the image of a state institution was carried out in American media in 1999.The recent editorial of New York Times captioned’ Where the real power lies’ is another hook in this chain. It is high time that PML-N leadership give chance to reasons instead of emotions and give due respect to state institutions by abiding the principles of true democracy.
