Caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi has clarified that interim PM Anwaarul Haq Kakar was misquoted by an English newspaper while reporting a story on the latter’s press conference after a high-level meeting on Friday.
“Nowhere in this whole conversation had the interim PM said that we do not want parliamentary democracy and multi-party system,” Solangi said while clarifying the response of Anwaarul Haq Kakar to the query. “Nowhere had he said that he likes dictatorship. Nowhere was it mentioned.”
Solangi’s statement was in response to the English newspaper story under the headline ‘Consistency of policies possible under one-party rule: PM Kakar’. According to the interim information minister, Dawn published the news “out of context” regarding the caretaker prime minister’s conversation with the media yesterday.
In his video statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, Solangi said that the newspaper tried to give the impression that continuity and consistency in policies were possible only when there was a one-party system.
This impression was attributed to caretaker PM Kakar, he said.
After the publication of this news, the information minister said that many journalists made unnecessary comments on it, Murtaza Solangi
In a more than 16-minute video, Solangi showed the screenshot of the story and his reply to a journalist on it. He also shared the clip in which Kakar was giving a response to the journalist who asked the question.
This news has given a false impression in some parts of the media that martial law has been imposed in the country, said Solangi.
He went on to add that such wrong news a few days ago affected the government’s infamy in the international media. “It is sad that a reputable newspaper is publishing wrong news again and again.”
The question of the journalist pertained to the continuity of policies, which apparently was not followed due to the change of government.
Solangi while trying to explain the query said that a desire was present. A desire that the continuity of policies should remain, he added.
“The prime minister when tells the journalist that I think you like democracy when he calls the journalist democrat so he also says that he also is a democrat because PM and his cabinet has taken the oath of Constitution,” said Solangi.
“Any dictator has not brought him [Kakar] here and the incumbent government came to existence after an amendment to Article 224 of the Constitution under a constitutional process. So he is also calling himself a democrat and saying that here the policy of continuity is not here and gives its reasons.”
