ISLAMABAD: A spokesman of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that the duty of ministers should not be to just give statements, but to find solutions of problems at hand.
“This is not possible due to foreign funding or pressure, but due to Allah’s blessings and joint efforts,” the former interior minister’s spokesman said.
He further said that federal and provincial governments, army, police and all other agencies were involved in this joint effort. “If ministers now see any weaknesses, they should find a solution for that,” the spokesman said.
He said that if a certain minister had an issue, he should have raised it in the cabinet or the national security committee meeting. He further said that important and crucial issues should not be discussed based on hearsay. In reality, Pakistan has given 26,000 lives and suffered a loss of Rs 100 billion. “After so many sacrifices, the world still raises fingers on us,” he said.
He said that it is a peculiar situation right now. “The army chief said that the world should do more now, but our interior minister and foreign minister said that we still need to do more. Both of them have been ministers for four years now, did they say anything related to this in cabinet or national security committee meetings?” he questioned.
He questioned whether the minister should know how popular his statement had become in India. “In India, people used this statement and built a narrative that all the problems are in Pakistan,” he said.
Published in Daily Times, September 17th 2017.
