Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s (PPP) lawmaker Abdul Qadir Patel said Saturday that journalist Mohsin Baig was apprehended by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on government\u2019s will, to divert nation\u2019s attention from record twelve rupees per liter hike in petroleum prices.
\nWhile addressing a press talk at Sindh Assembly\u2019s committee room, the PPP lawmaker said that he was supposed to counter the allegations leveled by Federal Minister Murad Saeed against his party\u2019s leadership. Murad had held a press conference earlier on Friday, to clear his position on arrest of journalist and media personality Mohsin Jameel Baig, who was held by the FIA on Murad\u2019s complain.
\n\u201cMinister and his fellows kept maligning our leaderships but we refrained ourselves from replying, as per the guidelines of our party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari\u201d Patel said, adding that Bilawal had directed party representatives \u2018not to derogate parliament house\u2019.
\n\u201cThey think they are very good orators. Speaker has also acted partially. They keep yelling for hours and our microphones are immediately turned off\u201d Patel said, while complaining of speaker\u2019s alleged partiality during National Assembly sessions.
\nTalking about the arrest of journalist Mohsin Baig, Patel said that the media personality had only quoted Reham Khan\u2019s book in his analysis, which was published in London.
\nPatel called Murad Saeed\u2019s performance as \u2018failure\u2019 and said that graft-scandals of billions of rupees came to light during Saeed\u2019s tenure as Communication Minister. \u201cTool tax was hiked by thousand rupees. Anyone can rule by imposing taxes, you don\u2019t need any vision or performance in such case\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s (PPP) lawmaker Abdul Qadir Patel said Saturday that journalist Mohsin Baig was apprehended by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on government\u2019s will, to divert nation\u2019s attention from record twelve rupees per liter hike in petroleum prices. While addressing a press talk at Sindh Assembly\u2019s committee room, the PPP lawmaker said that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[4233,210,4150,364],"class_list":{"0":"post-245326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-abdul-qadir-patel","9":"tag-inflation","10":"tag-mohsin-baig","11":"tag-ppp"},"yoast_head":"\n