LOWER DIR: Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said that Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has asked him to not call JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman “diesel”.
The prime minister said this while addressing a public gathering in Lower Dir where Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Chief Minister Mahmood Khan also spoke.
PM Imran Khan had earlier attended the induction ceremony of J-10C fighter jets into the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Kamra where COAS General Qamar Bajwa was also present.
"I was having a discussion with Gen Bajwa earlier and he asked me not to call Maulana Fazlur Rehman diesel. I told him that not me, it is the people who call him such,” the prime minister said.
The premier slammed PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who had a couple of days ago said that they [Opposition] would ensure that every institution should work within its constitutional boundaries, saying the JUI-F was actually referring to the Pakistan Army.
He said the government is committed to make Pakistan a welfare state on the pattern of the state of Madina. "The government has launched a health insurance programme for each family of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa up to one million rupees per year."
The premier said supremacy of law is the topmost priority of the government besides uplifting the living standard of poor and needy people.
The prime minister said rulers in the past left the country in debt besides they never condemned foreign aggression and drone attacks as their billions of dollars are lying in foreign banks.
Earlier, Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in his address said India has once again violated international norms by firing a supersonic missile in Mian Channu.
He said Pakistan wants peace in the region but we would never compromise on our sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The FM asked the international community to take notice of gross Indian human rights violations in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.
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