LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Uzma Bukhari has termed Indian soldiers killed in Pulwama attack as “martyrs.”
A video clip of the PML-N leader is circulating on social media in which she was lashing out at the government for making an issue out of Ayaz Sadiq’s statement about freeing Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain took a swipe at PML-N leader Uzma Bukhari after she called Indian soldiers killed in Pulwama attack in February 2019 martyrs.
The PML-N leader, “40 Indian soldiers were martyred in 2019 Pulwama incident.” Commenting over the remarks of the PML-N leader, analyst Aijaz Awan slammed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders for targeting national institutions and giving such ‘useless’ statements.
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At least 40 Indian soldiers died a year ago in an attack on security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. The suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a convoy of 78 buses carrying Indian paramilitary police in Pulwama.
Uzma Zahid Bukhari is a senior politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, from 2002 to May 2018. In February 2013, she joined PML-N.
Nation has already strongly criticised PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq’s on his anti-state remarks, made in the Parliament about the release of a captured Indian pilot. It is very sorrowful that on account of political differences, national institutions were being criticized.
The comments had kicked off a furor in Indian media, as channel upon channel and publication upon publication seized on Sadiq’s statement, misrepresented parts of it, and painted the picture that India had somehow prevailed over Pakistan in securing the downed pilot’s release.
On Friday, Shibli Faraz had hinted at legal action against the former National Assembly speaker for accusing the incumbent government of caving to Indian pressure. “What Ayaz Sadiq said is not forgivable,” he wrote in a tweet.
“Now the law will take its course. Faraz asserted that weakening the state is an “unpardonable offense, and promised that Sadiq and his followers would be punished for it”, he added.
