ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday said Imran Khan was not offered Rs 10 billion for staying away from the Panamagate.
“This allegation is the continuation of his irresistible propensity to hurl unsubstantiated allegations against his political opponents and state institutions which has been the hallmark of his politics during the last four years. It is nothing more than the convulsions of a lunatic suffering from the syndrome of hallucination,” she said at a press conference.
She said that if Kaptaan had even an iota of moral courage he should come forward with the details surrounding his allegation like who, when and where made this offer to him.
The minister said Imran had an unenviable record of denigrating and pressurising the state institutions to get the verdicts in his favour and had invariably been hurling abuses at those institutions when they did not deliver the verdict in his favour. Similarly he has indulged in shameless character assassination of his political opponents and whoever did not fall in line with his world view of the prevailing situation, she added.
Marriyum said the victims of his virulent flak included former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Wajihuddin and former chief election commissioner Fakhruddin G Ibrahim among others.
She said that Imran was pursuing a well thought out strategy to ridicule and malign the state institutions and to keep them under pressure to achieve his political objectives but it was regrettable that those institutions had never bothered to hold him accountable for his culpable indiscretions.
Marriyum said that Imran had been very harsh on the ECP accusing it of being in league with the government, challenging its jurisdiction to ask him about the foreign funding and even committing contempt by not responding to its repeated notices.
Similarly in the wake of the SC decision in the Panamagate case he is openly defying the verdict by expressing doubts about the efficacy of JIT and making hullaballoo about the dissenting notes, she observed.
The minister said that the prime minister had maintained a dignified silence against the provocative and filthy politics of Imran Khan with a view to strengthen democracy and to ensure stability and harmony in the country, while remaining focused on tackling the inherited challenges like terrorism and revival of the economy.
He also directed the workers of the party not to fall for the provocations. Marriyum referring to the allegations frequently leveled by Imran said that he was carrying a bucket of stinking mud which he was throwing around with relish.
