Lahore: Punjab Law Minister and PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that he did not issued any edict (fitwa) declaring former federal Law Minister Babar Awan as liable to be killed, saying that he was misquoted and his statement was taken out of context.
“I just talked about his corruption, hypocrisy and political summersaults and even talking about today. His attitude and tone and tenor have always been highly objectionable and even very cheap. This is the man who had distributed sweets on the hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. But now he and Zardari have become indispensible for each others to protect and hide their corruption,” Sanaullah told The News Tribe during an interview wherein he explained his reported ‘decree’ against Babar Awan’.
“The way Babar Awan talks, it hurt national solidarity and create hatreds among provinces. I have already declared this man a ‘black sheep in the black coat’. “Respectable professions like politics and law don’t not suit him. Instead he should do villain’s role in any film provided he is offered the role,” Sanaullah said sarcastically.
When asked that you had been accused of having links with extremists and keeping soft corners for them, he said that as the PPP failed miserly to deliver on every front so it had started ridiculing its political opponents by leveling different baseless and fabricated allegations. “The allegations against me of having links with terrorists is part of that strategy of the PPP,” he argued. When asked not only PPP but other quarters were also leveling the same allegations, he said, “These allegations were initially leveled first by PPP and likeminded. But let me clear it that by the Grace of Allah Almighty, I am a Muslim and if I have been in contacts with religious people during election campaign, then this is not a matter of shame for me. Religious people are part of our society and they enjoy respect in society and I do acknowledge that I have contacts with religious people and there is nothing wrong in it. But if some one says that I have contacts with terrorists than this is a baseless allegation.”
To a question that you had declared Zardari as ‘corrupt Jiyala’ and do you think this is appropriate to dub a person who holds the constitutional post of President of Pakistan, he said that if anyone is President of Pakistan and he demonstrate this through his actions and words, then these words are inappropriate. But if anyone don’t want to be President and strive to prove himself a ‘jiyala’ and act against the spirit of the office of the president, then these were appropriate.
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