LAHORE: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday said that ‘anti-democratic forces’ keep on trying to destabilise the democratic process in the country but to no avail.
“There are these anti-democractic forces in the country who are scared of democracy and keep on attempting to sabotage the elected government, but they are destined to fail since the public now knows of their tricks,” Ahsan said speaking to the media in Punjab’s capital.
Lauding the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, the interior minister said that the party has changed the country’s fate in its ongoing tenure of five years.
“PMLN has changed the fate of Pakistan in 5 years. We have eliminated terrorism, engineered economic boom and have ensured stability in Karachi, and we have brought cricket back to Pakistan,” Ahsan stressed.
The lawmaker also termed the Senate elections as a success of democracy since ‘before the elections, there were talks about dissolving the assemblies’.
He added that the PML-N was the ‘real victor’ in Senate elections despite candidate Zafarul Haq losing by a margin of 11 votes to PPP-PTI backed Sadiq Sanjrani.
With reference to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification as party president, Ahsan said that the ex-premier’s popularity has risen ‘unconditionally’.
He also called for accountability of former president Pervaiz Musharraf pertaining various cases quizzing that “If Nawaz Sharif can appear before courts on daily basis even though his wife is suffering from cancer, why can’t a healthy ex-general do the same?”
