ISLAMABAD
\nPTI MPA Hisham Inamullah lashed out at party vice president Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday for what he said was uttering a \u201cracist remark\u201d playing on stereotypes about Pakhtuns.
\nA day ago in an appearance on anchorperson Kashif Abbasi\u2019s ARY News programme \u201cOff the Record\u201d, the two were discussing an alleged incident about former Federal Investigation Agency Director General Bashir Memon being locked in a bathroom of the Prime Minister House by former principal secretary Azam Khan.
\nChaudhry then remarked: \u201cHe took a big risk in going to the bathroom with a Khan (Pakhtun),\u201d which prompted Abbasi to cut to a break.
\nResponding to the quip, Inamullah released a statement on his Twitter account, saying that he was \u201cproud to be a Pathan\u201d.
\nInamullah said he \u201cstrongly condemned\u201d Chaudhry\u2019s insinuation and considered it to be disrespectful to the entire Pakhtun community.
\n\u201cThis is a shameful and disreputable allegation,\u201d he said, adding that if Chaudhry thought this about Pakhtuns, then why was he in a party whose leader and most of its members also shared that ethnicity.
\n\u201cPathan, Baloch, Sindhi and Punjabi together make Pakistan. We think that no ethnicity is superior to another, all have had leading roles in establishing Pakistan and its system and everyone should take care about the other\u2019s respect and stature.\u201d
\nInamullah said that thoughts like Chaudhry\u2019s led to discord, mistrust and unrest between ethnicities, adding that the PTI leader should ask for forgiveness from the Pakhtun community and strive to become \u201cactually free\u201d from such thinking if he considered himself to be a national leader and PTI member.
\nChaudhry has yet to comment on the matter. Dawn.com has reached out to the former minister and the PTI for comment.
\nDawn News anchor Adil Shahzeb also tagged a bevy of PTI ministers and leaders from the Pakhtun community, saying that he expected them to strongly condemn Chaudhry\u2019s racist remarks.
\nOne of the tagged individuals, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra, said: \u201cNo question about it, strongly condemned.\u201d
\nHowever, he did ask Shahzeb if he in turn condemned the government on a number of other issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD PTI MPA Hisham Inamullah lashed out at party vice president Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday for what he said was uttering a \u201cracist remark\u201d playing on stereotypes about Pakhtuns. A day ago in an appearance on anchorperson Kashif Abbasi\u2019s ARY News programme \u201cOff the Record\u201d, the two were discussing an alleged incident about former Federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4080,10940,6587],"class_list":{"0":"post-287841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-fawad-chaudary","9":"tag-pakhtun-community","10":"tag-pti-leaders"},"yoast_head":"\n