Patriot Report
ISLAMABAD: In a startling claims Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and senior leader of Pakistan People’s Party Aitzaz Ahsan claimed that the national security meeting news was not ‘leaked’ but ‘fed’. He was speaking to Sardar Khan Niazi in Roze News program Sachi Baat. The Senator claimed that Pervaiz Rasheed was made a scapegoat and the ‘person’ who leaked the news is far more powerful than former information minister Pervaiz Rasheed and Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. Aitzaz however didn’t name anyone in this regard.
It is pertinent to mention here that Information Minister Parvaiz Rasheed resigned from his position as Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage on Saturday.
A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s office had said: ‘Evidence available so far points to a lapse on part of the information minister, who has been directed to step down from the office to enable holding of an independent and detailed inquiry.’
While commenting on the Panama Leaks issue, the PPP Senator said that the issue is of very serious nature and the Prime Minister has no way out of it. He said that the Panama Papers leaks cannot be blamed on opposition or anyone else for that matter as it was published by an international organization (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists). He said that the allegations on the Prime Minister and his family are of money laundering and kickbacks which is a serious matter. He also pointed that family members of the Prime Minister and various government Ministers have issued contradictory statements on the Panama Leaks scandal. Aitzaz went on to say that if the case is dealt by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the same way the case of former Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be in deep trouble. He also added that if the case is prolonged it will become controversial.