PM, Shahbaz apologise over Nisar’s tirade against Aitzaz. ISLAMABAD: In a surprising development, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan stirred up a controversy on Thursday with a frontal attack on PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan, accusing him of using the name of the late Benazir Bhutto for business interests and personal gains and being a facilitator of the biggest land mafia in the country. The charges levelled at Senator Ahsan at what appears to be an inopportune time for the government immediately prompted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to take damage control measures. They separately called Mr Ahsan and the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah, to apologise over the remarks. Mr Shah advised them to ask the interior minister not to create tension at a time when the opposition was trying to end the impasse between the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek. Senater Ahsan himself said he would come up with a befitting reply in the joint session of Parliament on Friday. A spokesman for Khursheed Shah said the Leader of the Opposition told the Sharif brothers that the PPP could have come up with an appropriate response, but chose not to vitiate the atmosphere. The interior minister had said that Mr Ahsan treated politics as business. “I know where he is speaking from. He is a representative and facilitator of the biggest land mafia in the country,” Chaudhry Nisar remarked. “I have no respect for a person like him. Right from the LPG quota to using planes of a particular mafia, there is a contradiction in his words and deeds,” he said.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:17:24 +0000
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