PTI’s Barrister Gohar calls Kh Asif ‘beneficiary of corrupt system’

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said on Tuesday that those who were the beneficiaries of the ‘corrupt’ government made statements like the one which Defence Minister Khawaja Asif had made yesterday, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Speaking in the National Assembly (NA), he appealed to the NA speaker to expunge the remarks Asif had made about PTI MNA Omar Ayub Khan’s late grandfather, General Ayub Khan, who was also the country’s president.

Then addressing the MNAs sitting on the government benches, the PTI chairman said that they were the losers. “You were the people who had maligned the Pakistan Army by saying they had a role in Mumbai terror attacks,” he said, adding, “Similarly you were those whose names had appeared in the Panama leaks.”

Barrister Gohar further said that even today both the PML-N and PPP did not have a majority in the NA. “Former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif did not congratulate the party’s candidates who were declared winners in the recently held general elections because he knew they were not the winners, but the losers.”

He went on to say that the PTI was struggling for democracy and equal treatment of all in the country.

He, the PTI chairman said while referring to the defence minister, was the one who held an Iqama.

He asked whether that was how ‘free and fair' elections were held the way they were held under the auspices of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

Barrister Gohar said that despite the fact that the electoral symbol was snatched from the PTI, still people voted for it in large numbers.

“And despite the fact that those in power committed atrocities against us, still we preferred to sit in the parliament and did not resign from our seats,” he said.