Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
on Sunday lashed out at Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal for making
“baseless claims” regarding killing of protesters outside the former’s
residence only to “hide his incompetence”.
“Is he [Mr
Iqbal] not the same person who earlier said he would get the [Islamabad]
sit-in protesters cleared within three hours [but is] now putting the
burden of the [botched] operation on the judiciary,” a private news
channels quoted the former interior minister as saying.
Mr
Iqbal responded in the same tone as he questioned “in how many days
Nisar had managed to end the sit-in staged by the Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaf when he was holding the post,”
The criticism from Chaudhry Nisar came
against the backdrop of Mr Iqbal’s statement that there were no
casualties during the operation, and the deaths were reported in
incidents that took place after the operation was called off, when the
mob started attacking private properties, including the residence of the
former interior minister.
The PML-N leader, known as
the most mercurial member of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s team,
made it clear that no one was killed, or even injured, at his house when
it came under an attack by protesters on Saturday.
He said it was very unfortunate that the country had got an “irresponsible and ignorant” man as the interior minister.
He
said that the office of Mr Iqbal required him to stand by the
administration instead of making baseless and illogical statements.
