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  • Parliament, nation is united against mutiny, says Nisar

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    Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Federal Minister for Interior, said Tuesday the whole Parliament is united in the face of ‘lashkar kashi’ and mutiny against the state of Pakistan by a few thousand people.

    "Today Pakistan is at a sensitive and historic junction. Sensitive because a crowd of a few thousands, between 2,000-3,000… in the evening it reaches between 10,000 – 12,000... One group is taking the support of democracy and rule of law and the right to expression is taking unconstitutional means.

    "The Parliament is united on this issue"

    "What changed in a few months? You [Imran Khan] had been supporting this government, you had been making promises." "In three months you took a 370 degree turn."

    "All Parliament is on one side and this group is on the other side. Who is the country with? The country is with us." "The country is looking to you, Mr Speak [Ayaz Sadiq], for the advice you give to the government."

    Nisar holds up a document and reads from it the words of Dr Qadri that those abandoning the revolution should be killed. He also cited Qadri ordering his workers to surround Parliament and kill those who come outside.

    Nisar quotes Imran Khan saying that he will not spare Shahid Khan and that if the PTI tigers catch him, they will not leave him. “These are the people we are dealing with, Mr Speaker,” Nisar said.

    Nisar mentioned that Shahid Khan, the interior secretary, is an able and honest man. "I cannot say aloud the words uttered by Imran Khan," he added.

    He said the public was being fooled with the reference of democracy in Europe.

    The interior minister said that he was told by the prime minister that the protesting parties should be allowed to excersise their democratic right to protest as long as it withing the ambit of the constitution.

    Nisar goes into the background of the march to Islamabad, and says that the governemnt was flexible in granting permission even when they had reservations to certain conditions of the parties, such as the spot where the stages would be placed.

    "You have my solemn commitment we will not move further than that [Red Zone], Imran told me — so without hesitation I said they should proceed."

    Nisar addressed the NA speaker and said, “This Parliament should remove the misconception that this is a democratic process. This is not a protest, not a dharna or a political gathering. This is mutiny against Pakistan.”

    “If this declaration comes from the Parliamentary, the nation will know the reality of this protest.” "They reached the gates of the Supreme Court, of Parliament... yesterday they entered another state building and chanted slogans of 'Tahir-ul-Qadri Zindabad'," he said, referring to the storming of the PTV Islamabad office.

    "Those were not Muslim League Noon cameras that they broke," he said, adding that eight PTV cameras were stolen, each of which cost Rs700,000.

    "The way they behaved with a female employee there... they stole her purse... I do not want to go into details." “They removed the loudspeakers from the PTV mosque. Is this the revolution they are bringing? They even stormed the canteen at PTV — they are not revolutionaries… they are intruders,” Nisar said.

    Nisar said that the protesters had pistols, cutters, hammers, catapults, slingshots and sticks with nails fixed to the end. "The men in this crowd are from a militant organisation."

    Some of the CCTV cameras that were not broken by them have footage which will we present to the Supreme Court to show that they are liars, that they make false statements. Pat says these were not their supporters, PTI says they were not their supporters, he said.

    Heads of state have cancelled their visits to Pakistan. A leader of a friendly, close country is expected to come to make a historic agreement with us, he said.

    "I will not give an opinion on whether or not the statements of Javed Hashmi is correct or not. But I am a witness to this and have proof that these protesters sitting outside this Parliament have misused the name of the army."

    "Both these groups have been telling their supporters that the army is with him, as said by Javed Hashmi. They have also used the name of the judiciary, as Hashmi said. Using the names of the judiciary and army for your political gain is serious mistake."

    Nisar said these people should be asked why they defamed a respectable institution like the army at a time when the military is fighting a war. "The army chief has declared the military as 'apolitical'," he said.

    "This is an anti-army and anti-country statement by them," Nisar said. “The true friends and true sympathies of the army are not those who are using the name of the army to further their political parties.”

    He also paid tribute to the Punjab police, FC, Rangers, and the Pakistan army. He apologised for the crackdown by the police on the media.” Media is the spirit of democracy. If there was no media, our voices would not reach beyond these walls,” Nisar said.

    “I want to make an unmitigated apology to the media from the government of Pakistan and from the interior ministry,” he concluded.