ISLAMABAD: As Youm-i-Takbeer is being noticed throughout the nation on Tuesday (at this time), Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has lashed out on the authorities for exploiting the nation’s nuclear programme for political achieve.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday declared Could 28 — often called Youm-i-Takbeer — a national holiday to mark the day Pakistan turned a nuclear energy 26 years in the past.
A PTI spokesperson slammed the PML-N for making an attempt to take credit score for Pakistan’s peaceable nuclear programme, accusing them of exploiting it for political achieve. He emphasised that Pakistan’s nuclear functionality was achieved because of the willpower of the nation and the tireless efforts of expert and patriotic scientists, not as a consequence of any political celebration’s efforts.
The spokesperson mentioned in an announcement that the nation commemorates Could 28 because the day of Pakistan’s profitable nuclear checks, a momentous event that showcases the nation’s unwavering resolve, willpower, sacrifice, and unity.
Says nation below ‘worst dictatorship since regime change operation’
He emphasised that protecting in view the precept of sustaining a minimal defence functionality and restoring regional steadiness, the nation made a agency determination to sacrifice no matter it took to protect the nuclear programme and set up Pakistan as a nuclear energy.
Nevertheless, the PTI spokesperson alleged, a specific group — a reference to PML-N — was making an attempt to use Pakistan’s peaceable nuclear programme for his or her “vested political pursuits”, even supposing they performed no function in making Pakistan’s defence impregnable.
He asserted that each stage of the nuclear programme, from inception to completion, loved full public assist and participation, emphasising that it was essential to satisfy the important defence wants within the face of a a lot bigger enemy, each economically and when it comes to measurement, and the nation efficiently fulfilled this duty.
The PTI spokesperson claimed that former overseas minister Gohar Ayub Khan and Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, nuclear physicist who’s colloquially often called the ‘father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons programme’, had revealed how then PM Nawaz Sharif’s “platelets” had been quickly falling after India carried out nuclear blasts.
He went on to say that the declare of constructing the nation a nuclear energy by those that weakened the nation by “loot of the nationwide treasury” was nothing greater than a hoax.
‘Worst dictatorship’
In the meantime, the PTI alleged that Pakistan has been gripped by the ‘worst particular person dictatorship’ because the regime change operation, which has disadvantaged the nation of its Structure and the rule of regulation.
Referring to a statement by Bahria City proprietor Malik Riaz, the PTI spokesperson mentioned that not solely politicians but additionally judges, journalists, legal professionals, merchants, businessmen, and folks from all walks of life are being focused, harassed, and coerced to undergo the “will and whims of 1 particular person”.
On Sunday, the actual property tycoon claimed that he was being pressured for “political motives”, however asserted that he wouldn’t bow earlier than anybody. In a message on X, previously Twitter, Malik Riaz mentioned he had been pushed to the wall and was going through fixed losses in his enterprise.
The PTI spokesperson mentioned that in a system that prioritises particular person energy, bullying, coercion, and oppression have change into the norm, forcing folks into submission.
Revealed in Daybreak, Could twenty eighth, 2024