LAHORE: Reacting sharply to the federal information minister’s utterances, Pakistan Peoples Party Deputy Information Secretary Munawwar Anjum called Fawad Chaudhry “a robot manufactured to tell lies”.

Responding to the minister’s allegations that 80pc of the loans were taken by the PPP and PML-N governments and the PTI government was seeking foreign financial aid only to retire the same, Mr Anjum said it seemed the ‘creators’ of the PTI-led government manufactured a robot in the form of Fawad Chaudhry to tell lies to the nations as a cover-up for its incompetence.

The PPP leader said recovery of over Rs330 million from a NAB officer’s home in Lahore made the credibility of the anti-corruption watchdog dubious.

He wondered why NAB and/or FIA was not summoning Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan, Punjab’s senior minister Aleem Khan and other PTI leaders in the cases of owning assets beyond known sources of income while those belonging to the PPP and other opposition parties were being forced to join inquiries instituted against them on ‘flimsy’ grounds.

Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2018