KARACHI, Pakistan: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led federal government has denied politically victimizing its opponents, an allegation leveled by the main opposition party.
“PML-N does not believe in politics of victimization,” the Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed said while talking to media after inaugurating a three-day book fair in Karachi.
The information minister said that no one could be provided with a license to commit crime in the name of politics. He said that the operation against terrorists and criminals is not against any political party.
His remarks came in an apparent reference to a statement by the former President and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in which he termed the sentence awarded to the Sindh lawmaker Ali Nawaz Shah ‘political victimization.’
On Thursday, an accountability court in Karachi convicted and jailed Ali Nawaz Shah and two of his relatives in a land-revenue fraud case.
The PPP lawmaker was disqualified from holding membership of the legislature for 10 years and was sentenced to five years in prison
In a statement, Zardari said that Ali Nawaz had already served his sentence in this case and the PPP was once again being politically victimized.
The former president alleged that federal institutions were being used for the purpose of political victimizations and the result of this would not be good.
