PTI doing all this just to get a prisoner freed: Minister

Senior Punjab Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that all this Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is doing is to get a prisoner freed, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Talking to media in Lahore on Wednesday, the minister asked PTI leadership “do you want the government to release you?” 

Marriyum Aurangzeb said they are calling the “fight of sisters-in-law” at home a jihad. However, she maintained, the real fight is between Zaman Park and Banigala.

“If you want to stage a protest, do it in your province and hold sit-ins,” Marriyum Aurangzeb advised PTI leadership.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has become a franchise party, said the minister. She said the party leadership needed to understand the difference between revolution and rebellion. 

Talking about the smog situation, Marriyum said by the grace of Allah the change in wind direction and the weather is good for the elimination of smog in Punjab.

For the last four to five days, the meteorological department and other organizations are watching the situation and now Lahore's current air quality index is 236, she said.

It's a natural disaster and everyone has to come together to fight with this situation of smog, the minister said. Thank God that the forecast will remain like this for the next four to five days, Marriyum added. 

All parties have protested, Muslim League-N and People's Party have also protested.

A person threw dirty clothes outside the courts, set them ablaze and damaged government buildings while the CPEC was starting, she said. 

She said that inflation has reached single digits and SCO has taken place in the country.