ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has rejected any foreign pressure on proscribing Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), saying that it was purely an internal decision of Pakistan.
Talking to journalists at District Headquarters Hospital after inquiring after the health of injured police personnel today (Saturday), he said the government handled the protests of the TLP in the best possible manner and the situation stands normalized now across the country.
“Pakistan’s state is not a weak state at all and no one should make the mistake of misunderstanding this,” he said, adding that Pakistan also had the “biggest defence system and army” in the Muslim world.
He further said, “So those who wanted to undermine Pakistan should remove that misunderstanding of theirs,” adding that the writ of the state could not be challenged.
The federal minister claimed that prior investigations on sectarian riots and organisations had found the involvement of the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, so “here too there are parties who are used”.
Chaudhry also congratulated the police of the four provinces and the rest of the security institutions for making the protests unsuccessful. Regretting the language recently used by PML (N) leader Rana Sanaullah, the Information Minister said nobody can be allowed to threaten the institutions and officers.
He said Sanaullah had threatened the Punjab chief secretary, commissioner and other government officers a day earlier and a case would be registered against him under the Anti-Terrorism Act, for which instructions have been given.
