Arrest of four women: Minister assures Mengal of resolving case in 2 days

Interior Minister Ijaz Shah Friday assured Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal that the issue of arrest of four women from Awaran district of Balochistan will be resolved within two days.

In a meeting with a BNP-M delegation led by Sardar Akhtar Mengal at the office of Deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri, Mengal expressed concern over government's failure to address the issues of its allies, saying his party would reconsider its position if it does not get any benefit from the coalition.

"We do not see the point of being a partner of this government if it refuses to address our genuine concerns," he maintained.

Suri, who had arranged the meeting of the delegation with the interior minister, said that he himself is from Balochistan and assured Mengal that the government is genuinely interested in working with his party for the development of the province to end all injustices towards the people of Balochistan.

On November 30, four Baloch women were forcibly picked up from different parts of Awaran. According to a tweet by rights activist associated with Amnesty International, Rabia Mehmood, four Baloch women named Sakina, Sayad Bibi, Nazal and Hameeda had been forcibly picked up from district Awaran in Balochistan.

Meanwhile, talking to journalists outside the Parliament House, the opposition MPs especially those belonging to PPP and PML-N reiterated that production orders issued by the NA speaker must be implemented in letter and spirit or else they would continue their boycott of the NA proceedings.

Talking to journalists, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb dismissed the corruption allegations leveled against Sharif family by the government, terming them as "baseless, concocted and fictitious."

She said that '40 thieves and liars' headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan are leading the country and God knows where they would take poor masses. She said that they are "disappointed and frustrated" seeing the way country is being run.

She was responding to Thursday's press conference of Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar in which he had alleged that Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif was guilty of corruption worth billions of rupees.

Marriyum said that the Premier should ask his "lying conjurers" why the evidence against Shahbaz Sharif was not presented in court. She added that the Prime Minister should tell the people about the projects through which the Sharif family made money. She said that the government's fake corruption case has been destroyed. She added that PM Imran is "disappointed and nervous" because lie has been exposed in front of the people and courts.

She said that instead of putting up a show through his "puppets", he should go to a court in Pakistan or anywhere in the world to prove his lies as truth.

The PML-N spokesperson said that the PM has been hiding his "failure and incapability" while his fake allegations have also been exposed through the Supreme Court (SC), high court, accountability court and Judge Arshad Malik's video leakage.