Elahi Snubs Gill For Speaking Against Army.

LAHORE -- Punjab Chief Minister Ch Parvez Elahi Wednesday exApressed his desire to have cordial relations with the fedAeral government and vowed not to take any revengeful acAtion against the bureaucracy for May 25 incidents.

Speaking to a private channel on WednesAday morning, Ch Parvez Elahi adopted a conciliatory tone towards the federal govAernment and the civil bureaucracy saying that he did not want to waste time in reAuseless fights with the central government. Also, the chief minAister vehemently condemned the PTI leader Shahbaz Gill's anAti-army rants and expressed his displeasure about it. He said he had also scolded him for his reAmarks against the institutions.

'Have you gone insane? The judiciary and the army are our institutions and you have spoAken against them?' Parvez Elahi said while referring to his conAversation with Shahbaz Gill.

Parvez Elahi said that he had rebuked Shahbaz Gill telling him that it was 'really bad' [to speak against the institutions]. 'It is Pakistan's army and whoAsoever speaks against the army cannot be a Pakistani', he addAed. He, however, said that peoAple like Gill and Talal Ch were there in the political parties.

'I have myself issued a stateAment and even Khan sab has spoken in favour of the army', he said. In a separate stateAment, Ch Parvez Elahi went to the extent of saying that whoAsoever talked against the army, should be declared as an enemy of Pakistan and to the religion of Islam. He said that no one could talk against the Pakistan Army under any circumstances.

'Pakistan's armed forces are the guarantors to safeguard the frontiers of our country and are also a symbol of our pride. Only an enemy to the country can inAdulge into propaganda against the army', he said.

The CM maintained that PTI chief Imran Khan, his party and the whole nation was standing with the Pakistan Army. He deAnounced that PML-N was makAing a false and baseless proApaganda. 'We will not allow anyone to attain political moAtives by defaming the army', he said, adding that a false propaAganda is being launched from the PML-N...