No Deal, No Leniency for Imran Khan, Says Tariq Fazal Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry has said the government has neither a deal nor leniency for Imran Khan.

Speaking to the media at Parliament House, he said the only way for the PTI founder’s release was through the courts.

Medical facilities and treatment

He said the PTI founder has access to medical check-ups, and that the government had neither been negligent in his treatment in the past nor would it be negligent in future.

The minister said Salman Safdar is a lawyer, but in his media remarks he was playing the role of a medical specialist. Salman Safdar has also acknowledged that the PTI founder has access to medical check-ups, and that his release could be possible if he paid attention to legal points.

Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said the PTI founder had been taken to hospital six times before the Supreme Court’s order. When blood pressure required it, a doctor was called from London, and his treatment was provided to the necessary medical standard.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the emergency

Describing the PTI’s 13-year tenure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the worst, he said no notable development had taken place during that period, nor had facilities been provided to the public.

He said the emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would remain in force until the required targets were achieved, and that the government no longer had any option of failure.

He said the state and its institutions were fighting a war against terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but the PTI had shown complete non-cooperation in that fight.

He said the emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were a political suicide attack by the PTI against itself, and that this option had been used as a last resort.

According to Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, the PTI’s era has always been a period of politics of turmoil and disorder, but that politics has now come to an end across the country, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa along with the whole of Pakistan is moving towards peace and development.