PM's aide questions Sharifs' silence over Musharraf conviction.

SIALKOT -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has questioned the Sharif family's silence over the Musharraf conviction by a special court in the high treason case.

'The Nawaz Sharif government had filed the high treason case against Pervez Musharraf in 2013 but his silence after former army chief's conviction clearly suggests that the Sharifs are in politics for personal gain,' she told media on Sunday.

Ms Awan claimed that the entire Sharif family was now confused what their public stand should be over this burning issue. She said the party leadership which raised the Aslogan of vote ko izzat do (give respect to vote) had now abandoned its workers.

Reacting to recent speeches of Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Ms Awan said he should first introduce democracy in his party before seeking 'genuine' democracy in Pakistan.

She said those who plundered the country's wealth were now posing as people's representatives. 'The PPP leadership remembers Benazir Bhutto only on her death anniversary or ahead of elections to get votes.

The PM's assistant, who was information minister during the last PPP government, bitterly criticised Mr Bhutto-Zardari for calling the PM 'selected'.

'How come those who have been brought into politics on recommendations can call the prime minister selected,' she asked.

Commenting about the Indian citizenship bill, Ms Awan said Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's two-nation theory stood vindicated today.

She said India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi had become an 'extremist state'.

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