ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information Maryam Aurangzeb said on Tuesday said Pakistani media had always played a positive role in promoting Pakistan’s positive image.
She said further terror incidents have declined considerably in the country in the last four years due to the government’s better policies.
“Before the PML-N government, terrorism was persisting at large scale in the country. Several blasts occurred daily. Now the back of the terrorists have been broken due to better policies of our government. A remarkable decrease can be observed in the incidents of terrorism today.”
She said this while addressing a ceremony of Pakistan Association Tourism Operator.
“Revival of tourism since the last two years is a positive movement forward. Government cannot complete every work. Therefore private sector should come forward a bit and do investment in the field of tourism. Now science has come in tourism business, she observed.
She urged that tourism should be promoted according to modern needs and circumstances.”
“Our Armed forces, law enforcement agencies and nation are the most valiant nation in the world,” she further added.
Separately, State Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) used Panama Papers as a political ploy after its allegations of electoral rigging were rejected by a judicial commission in 2014.
Addressing a press conference, he said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s name was not mentioned in the Panama Papers.
He was flanked by PML-N lawmaker Daniyal Aziz.
Nobody was tried in a court of law anywhere in the world on the issue of Panama Papers, he added.
The minister said the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did nothing to improve health and education.
He asked Kaptaan to stop using “derogatory language” against the PM.
Aziz said the Supreme Court should take up the petitions of Hanif Abbasi and others against Imran Khan and Jehangir Tareen. He said the PML-N MNAs had filed a reference against Imran and Tareen in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The ECP, in its verdict in the reference, stated that under Article 62 of the constitution, the matters of lawmakers could not be taken up. But this principle was ignored in the case of Nawaz Sharif and decade-old matters were heard in the Supreme Court, he added.
