Rana Sanaullah says ‘culprits Bajwa, Faiz’ should be held accountable for causing instability.
Former interior minister Rana Sanaullah of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has blamed the country’s current political and economic crises on former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa and former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Faiz Hamid.
Sanaullah called the former top military officials “culprits of the nation” in an interview with a local TV channel on Wednesday, demanding that they be brought to justice for causing political and economic instability in the country.
In response to a question, Sanaullah said: “These people are culprits of the nation. They are the culprits of Pakistan. They are culprits of not just the PML-N but also of the entire nation.”
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“They will not be forgiven. These people must be held accountable. They are responsible for the current instability in the country and they must be asked why they created instability in 2017,” he added.
Rana Sanaullah says ‘culprits Bajwa, Faiz’ should be held accountable for causing instability.
In response to another question about what action PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would propose if his party came to power against Gen Bajwa, Gen Hamid, former Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar, and a sitting senior Supreme Court judge whom he named while addressing his party’s Punjab Tanzeemi Committee meeting via video link on Tuesday or if it was just a statement, Sanaullah said these people were responsible for citizens starving.
When asked what the PML-N’s strategy was for “these national perpetrators,” he said his party would not rush to revenge. Sharif made it clear in his address that the injured person in need of immediate medical attention must be attended to first before action is taken against the perpetrators.
“If the PML-N gets an opportunity to come to power, first of all, our priority would be to address the problems of the common man, and later those responsible for their plight, in my opinion as the decision would be made by the party, should be booked in a case.”
Sanaullah went on to say that these perpetrators should be brought to justice in the same way that Pervez Musharraf was, and that credit for that should go to the PML-N.
To another query, if action would also be taken against the sitting SC judge named by Nawaz Sharif, he said, “Yes, [he] should be accountable…. Yesterday, Nawaz Sharif’s statement was a policy statement and he said these people should be held accountable.”
