ISLAMABAD, May 11: Spokesman for Pakistan People’s Party Farhatullah Babar has said that the military regime has unleashed its ‘brigade of sycophants and turncoats’ to discredit democratic political parties and their leaders after getting unnerved by the PPP and PML-N new alliance under the umbrella of the ARD to banish dictatorship and bonapartism.

He was responding to the criticism of Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani in a statement here on Thursday.

“The harangues of the information minister was a proof that the dictators had seen the writing on the wall. It is a lesson of history that dictators cling to straws as they inexorably move towards their dark future. The Pakistani dictators have also started clinging to straws,” he said.

Mr Babar said the charter of democracy was not between two individuals. “It is a pact between the people of Pakistan represented by their political parties that together secured three times more votes than the king’s party,” he added.