DLP REPORT
ISLAMABAD
After causing massive losses to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) by claiming that a third of the country’s pilots had fake degrees, the country’s aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan has now stoked another controversy saying that corrupt politicians of Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People Party (PPP) parties are liable to be killed.
“The PML-N and PPP had looted the country’s wealth during their tenures in power. They looted the national exchequer ruthlessly. All these people are “wajibul qatl” (liable to be killed),” Khan told media after inspecting a Labor Complex in Taxila on Monday.
Condemning Khan’s statement, his fellow cabinet member, Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry, termed it “very inappropriate.” “It appears the aviation minister has failed to ascertain the gravity of such statements,” Chaudhry posted on Twitter. “Politics is a war of ideas; it’s no more the era of killing opponents. Such statements are in bad taste and cannot be approved,” he added.
Slamming Khan for his “irresponsible” statement, PMLN spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb alleged that the people who had actually looted the national wealth were all sitting in PM Imran Khan’s cabinet.
Similarly, PPP Secretary General Nayyar Bukhari pointed out that Sarwar Khan had been a part of the PPP during its previous government and should offer himself up for punishment as a first step. He said the language used by Sarwar did not suit a man with the portfolio of a minister.
