Lahore: Pakistan Defense Minister Ch Ahmed Mukhtar Friday said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is a brave man and ready to go to jail if he (Gilani) is charged with contempt of court.
The Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar was addressing a ceremony of expansion of the secretariat office of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Punjab situated at Faisal Town. Peoples Party Punjab president Imtiaz Safdar Wariech, PPP Punjab Secretary Samiullah Khan, Federal Minister Samina Khalid Ghorki, Punjab Assembly parliamentary leader Shaukat Basra also addressed the party workers on this occasion.
Ahmed Mukhtar said the party leaders did not afraid of jails and they were political victimized a lot of times in the past. He said the Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani had repeatedly said that he respected the courts and he (Gillani) appeared before the apex court earlier and if the court called him again he would go to there definitely. He said Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif preferred to go to in London after realizing the facts that memogate had nothing to do with the reality. “I challenge Mian Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf central leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi to contest elections against him in Gujjrat and I will compel them to lick the dust,” adding he said tsunami had disappeared somewhere and in the coming elections it would be PPP that come again in powers.
Answering a question, he said he had not directed so far for the restoration of the employees of Pakistan International Airline 9PPI) and whenever he would wish they would be restored to their jobs again. He said it was the president Asif Ali Zardari who taught politics to Shah Mehmood Qureshi otherwise Mehmood Qureshi was loitering in the streets of Multan. “It is strange to me that Shah Mehmood Qureshi is trying to teach politics to his guru Asif Ali Zardari,” adding he said he was assure about the victory of PPP in the coming general elections
Imtiaz Safdar Wariech said they would complete the project of expansion of PPP Punjab Secretariat office and funds would be provided incessantly. He said Imran Khan could not drop two wickets with one ball and it would be PPP that would hit two birds with one stone.
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