PTI won’t launch ‘a march’ on Islamabad again, says Kh Asif

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has declared that the federal government would not tolerate another May 9-like vandalism and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) will not think of launching “a march” on Islamabad again, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Talking to media men in Sialkot on Saturday afternoon, Khawaja Asif said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government armed with weapons and machinery had “attacked” The Federation during Rangers and police personnel were martyred.

Criticizing the PTI's recent protest, the defence Minister KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and PTI founder Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi fled from the federal capital’s Blue Area leaving the workers there.
Khawaja Asif said now PTI was resorting to false propaganda regarding dead bodies.

Kh Asif also congratulated the entire nation on resumption of Pakistan International Airlines’ flights to the European countries, saying under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif the country was on the path to progress.

He said PIA operations restoration was a big breakthrough which was suspended due to negligence of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf government. He PTI's Aviation Minister's misleading words led to the flight cancellation, but now PIA and AirBlue both got permission to fly to Europe.

Accusing the PTI workers of storming Islamabad with weapons in their hands, Khawaja Asif said that the state would not tolerate the May 9-like incident in the future.

Rejecting PTI’s claim that its workers were killed as a result of firing by the law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) personnel at Red Zone in Islamabad on November 26, the minister said no such video had surfaced that could corroborate the party’s accusation. “There is no such proof which the PTI could present,” he added. 

The minister said on the contrary these were the Rangers and the police personnel who laid down their lives for the defence of the country.

He said that the Pakistan Army played a cardinal role in the protection of the capital city.

Asif said it was former prime minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi, who had insisted on going to the D-Chowk. “But when the operation began, she and KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur left the PTI workers and fled from the scene.”

The truth of the matter was that, he went on to say, the PTI had not been able to stomach the country’s development. “The party has done all it could to destabilize the country’s economy,” he alleged.