ISLAMABAD: Defense Minister and PML-N stalwart Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Saturday ruled out the possibility of imposing a governor’s rule in the province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
Addressing a press conference today, the minister said that the Khyber Pakthunkhwa government of the PTI stormed federal capital thrice using resources. However, even then the federal government was not going to put the province under the governor’s rule.
The minister on the occasion released video statements of PTI workers arrested in a crackdown on the party’s protest in Islamabad on Nov 27 in which they claimed that they had been brought to the protest on payment.
They said they were told to ransack in Islamabad. Vehicles in the PTI rally were carrying petrol and some of the participants were also making petrol bombs, they added.
The arrested workers said that they were caught while involved in ransacking public and private properties in the federal capital.
The minister said that there were no evidence about the death from firing of any participant of the PTI protest. He said that conflicting figures being given by PTI leaders made it clear that they were just making such claims in order to gain public sympathy and conceal their embarrassment.
The minister said that if the PTI had evidence about the death of its workers in the operation they should share it with the government.
