ISLAMABAD: A spokesperson of the Interior Ministry has strongly contradicted the statement issued by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Spokesperson Farhatullah Babar on Monday.
While elaborating, the spokesperson said it has become a habit of PPP leaders to issue distorted and contradictory statements frequently indulging in doublespeak and beating around the bush, said a statement issued. “If indeed Difa e Pakistan Council is such a questionable organisation then why didn’t the PPP government resist its formation in 2009,” said the spokesperson. More importantly where was Farhatullah Babar when the same organisation held large-scale public meetings and media conference during the tenure of PPP government, he questioned.
It is also a matter of record that the former president had interactions with members of proscribed organisations, who had met him during his tenure in presidency and pictures were available on record and printed by national dailies at that time. Perhaps at that time Farhatullah Babar was not aware of these meetings in spite of being present in the presidency. Again it is not just the president, but a long list of PPP leaders with whom records and photographs of meetings with members of proscribed organisations are available on record, said the spokesperson.
“Babar can be excused for turning a blind eye to all these meetings and indulging in the kind of politicking that he is engaged in because that is all PPP is good at,” he added. However, Babar’s conscious efforts to subvert the successes achieved against terrorism in the last three years are inexcusable. Babar’s views are nothing less than insulting the realities and facts on the ground, he said. From a peak of 2,060 terrorist incidents taking place in one year alone when PPP was at zenith of its power to the current year’s figures of 754; the hard truth that does not appeal to Babar or to his party is that his government did nothing to address the monster of terrorism, while the present government’s record speaks for itself.
The attention of PPP was also drawn towards internationally recognised and admissible fact that terrorism, hardcore militancy and extremism is at its lowest ebb since last one decade in Pakistan acknowledged by US policy think tanks, other global terrorism monitoring forums, foreign governments and international media. The PPP is advised to concentrate on its performance in Sindh and keep factual realities in mind before making statements to confuse the public and distort both history and current affairs.
