SIALKOT
\nDefence Minister Khawaja Asif has congratulated the nation on the birth anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and greeted the Christian community on the Christmas celebrations.
\nThe defence minister was addressing the PML-N workers\u2019 convention in Sialkot on Sunday. He said he wanted to felicitate nation on the Quaid-e-Azam\u2019s birth anniversary and wished the Christian community on their Christmas festivities. He also congratulated PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on his birthday praying to Allah for his long life.
\nKh Asif said that nowadays the political fight is going on social media. He, however, said that one should not lose patience. He said nobody would be allowed to play with the security of country and property of the people. He said the Muslim League was the party which made Pakistan. He said that they did not believe in using swearing words. \u2018We do not use foul language against anyone, he added.
\nDefense Minister Khawaja Asif predicted that Ch Pervaiz Elahi may take a reverse gear in the coming days as he had taken earlier in this July. \u201cElahi had promised him to side with PML-N, but at the eleventh hour, he joined PTI. Now he claimed that he was asked by then Gen Bajwa to do so,\u201d he revealed.
\nTaking a dig at Imran Khan, the federal minister asked who arrested Nawaz Sharif and his family besides Khawaja Asif if he had not any authority over the NAB. He said that earlier political war was fought through personal contacts but nowadays political war is being fought on social media.
\nKhawaja Asif further said, \u201cWe should not fight the political war at their level, we have to win the political war with honor and dignity, we should use political language on social media.\u201d He added it should be remembered that Muslim League-N has decided to fight a legal and political battle. \u201cThe party leader has assigned the task to the team of senior lawyers of PML-N to fight the legal battle.\u201d
\nThe minister said that the country is facing threats of economic and political turmoil. \u201cIt is known that people are in trouble due to skyrocketing hike, the person who talked about happiness has left the people in the lurch.\u201d Khawaja Asif also demanded action under Article 6 against Imran Khan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SIALKOT Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has congratulated the nation on the birth anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and greeted the Christian community on the Christmas celebrations. The defence minister was addressing the PML-N workers\u2019 convention in Sialkot on Sunday. He said he wanted to felicitate nation on the Quaid-e-Azam\u2019s birth anniversary and wished the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238153,"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":[4],"tags":[38],"class_list":{"0":"post-303495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-asif"},"yoast_head":"\n