Ayaz Sadiq accuses Indian media of ‘misquoting’ him on Abhinandan release

[Baby Leone]

KARACHI: A day after his speech provided grist to the Indian propaganda mill to mock Pakistan’s military, senior PML-N politician Ayaz Sadiq accused India’s jingoistic media of “misreporting and misquoting” him.

What was the “grist”? A speech by Ayaz Sadiq on the floor of the National Assembly on Wednesday.

Sadiq implied in his speech that the PTI government had buckled under fear of an Indian attack and released an Indian pilot captured during last year’s military standoff between the two hostile neighbours.

He claimed that the government had begged the parliamentary leaders to let Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman go.

“I can recall [foreign minister] Shah Mahmood Qureshi sahib was present in a meeting, where the prime minister didn’t show up. The chief of army staff was also in attendance,” Sadiq said while responding to a cabinet member.

“With his legs trembling and sweat on the forehead, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said to us, ‘For God’s sake, let him [Abhinandan] go back now or else India would attack at 9pm’,” he claimed. “No attack was imminent; they only wanted to capitulate and send Abhinandan back.”

The Indian propaganda mill went into overdrive using Sadiq’s comments to mock the Pakistani military. Subsequently, Sadiq also drew the government’s wrath for “playing to the Indian gallery”.

Sensing the gravity of the situation, Sadiq issued a video statement on Thursday to clarify that the Indian social media posts and TV channel reports about his speech were “totally contrary” to what he had actually said in parliament.

“Abhinandan had not come to Pakistan to give out sweets. He had attacked Pakistan and it was a victory for Pakistan when his warplane was downed,” Sadiq says in the video message.

Sadiq, who is also former speaker of the National Assembly, said Prime Minister Imran Khan had convened a meeting of parliamentary leaders but “could not muster courage” to face them because he was “worried and sweating”.

“The prime minister appeared to be under pressure, but he didn’t tell us who was pressuring him or on whose instructions he was doing this. He didn’t show up at the meeting which he himself had convened,” Sadiq alleged.

According to him, it was Qureshi who had told the parliamentary leaders that the “civil leadership” decided to release Abhinandan in greater "national interest".

“We were not on board. There was no need to hurry; you could have waited. But it was done in national interest. Imran Khan’s decision betrayed weakness of the civil leadership.”

Qureshi angrily reacted to Sadiq’s statement which, he said, was “contrary to facts”. “I didn’t expect Ayaz Sadiq to say such a thing,” he said, adding that parliament had been taken into confidence over the intelligence information received regarding tensions with India. This information didn’t involve Abhinandan, he added.

“Such irresponsible statements are being given only to gain political mileage,” he said, accusing the opposition of “misleading” the nation on Abhinandan and Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.

“We don't want to give India a chance to take Pakistan to the International Court of Justice again,” he added. “An attempt is being made to make the issue of Abhinandan controversial for no reason.”

Ayaz Sadiq accuses Indian media of ‘misquoting’ him on Abhinandan release | The Express Tribune

Senior PML-N leader says what Indian media reported was ‘totally contrary’ to what he actually said in his NA speech

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[Norwegian]

KARACHI: A day after his speech provided grist to the Indian propaganda mill to mock Pakistan’s military, senior PML-N politician Ayaz Sadiq accused India’s jingoistic media of “misreporting and misquoting” him.

What was the “grist”? A speech by Ayaz Sadiq on the floor of the National Assembly on Wednesday.

Sadiq implied in his speech that the PTI government had buckled under fear of an Indian attack and released an Indian pilot captured during last year’s military standoff between the two hostile neighbours.

He claimed that the government had begged the parliamentary leaders to let Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman go.

“I can recall [foreign minister] Shah Mahmood Qureshi sahib was present in a meeting, where the prime minister didn’t show up. The chief of army staff was also in attendance,” Sadiq said while responding to a cabinet member.

“With his legs trembling and sweat on the forehead, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said to us, ‘For God’s sake, let him [Abhinandan] go back now or else India would attack at 9pm’,” he claimed. “No attack was imminent; they only wanted to capitulate and send Abhinandan back.”

The Indian propaganda mill went into overdrive using Sadiq’s comments to mock the Pakistani military. Subsequently, Sadiq also drew the government’s wrath for “playing to the Indian gallery”.

Sensing the gravity of the situation, Sadiq issued a video statement on Thursday to clarify that the Indian social media posts and TV channel reports about his speech were “totally contrary” to what he had actually said in parliament.

“Abhinandan had not come to Pakistan to give out sweets. He had attacked Pakistan and it was a victory for Pakistan when his warplane was downed,” Sadiq says in the video message.

Sadiq, who is also former speaker of the National Assembly, said Prime Minister Imran Khan had convened a meeting of parliamentary leaders but “could not muster courage” to face them because he was “worried and sweating”.

“The prime minister appeared to be under pressure, but he didn’t tell us who was pressuring him or on whose instructions he was doing this. He didn’t show up at the meeting which he himself had convened,” Sadiq alleged.

According to him, it was Qureshi who had told the parliamentary leaders that the “civil leadership” decided to release Abhinandan in greater "national interest".

“We were not on board. There was no need to hurry; you could have waited. But it was done in national interest. Imran Khan’s decision betrayed weakness of the civil leadership.”

Qureshi angrily reacted to Sadiq’s statement which, he said, was “contrary to facts”. “I didn’t expect Ayaz Sadiq to say such a thing,” he said, adding that parliament had been taken into confidence over the intelligence information received regarding tensions with India. This information didn’t involve Abhinandan, he added.

“Such irresponsible statements are being given only to gain political mileage,” he said, accusing the opposition of “misleading” the nation on Abhinandan and Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.

“We don't want to give India a chance to take Pakistan to the International Court of Justice again,” he added. “An attempt is being made to make the issue of Abhinandan controversial for no reason.”

Ayaz Sadiq accuses Indian media of ‘misquoting’ him on Abhinandan release | The Express Tribune

Senior PML-N leader says what Indian media reported was ‘totally contrary’ to what he actually said in his NA speech

tribune.com.pk

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[Baby Leone]

indian media as usual puts indian journalism into gutter.

 

[graphican]

Indian media can do what they want - but Ayaz Sadiq is not allowed to "be wrong" on this subject. We are not aliens or idiots who do not understand Urdu, Context or Meaning of his parliamentary talk.

"N-Choosyea" are invited and welcome to eat Ayaz Sadiq's explanatory crap. Sensible and Patriotic Pakistanis have heard what he was saying and are not ready to eat garbage in the name of "explanation".

 

[Vapnope]

Who is even going to buy his bullshit !

PMLn leadership should not be spared for what they have been doing for so long now.

 

[Jungibaaz]

It’s their job to turn a statement against SMQ to one against the army chief, but even so, a seasoned politician should have better sense than to speak about the minutes of a national security meeting or to sling mud on the government on a matter related to hostilities with India. It is absolutely unacceptable to claim that we somehow cowered, he should be reprimanded for this.

As for Indian media and government, they have jumped at the chance to undermine us and simultaneously advance their propaganda war against us to paint us as an irresponsible nuclear state with links to militants. They also used Fawad Chuadhry’s illspoken remarks on Feb 27 (mistakenly referring to Pulwama). In both cases, they distorted what Ayaz Sadiq and what Fawad Ch said for their purpose.

Our idiot politicians should be more careful, and asked in future not to bring up any matter such as this, they are not competent enough to speak with due care and too immature to leave certain matters aside.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

It’s their job to turn a statement against SMQ to one against the army chief, but even so, a seasoned politician should have better sense than to speak about the minutes of a national security meeting or to sling mud on the government on a matter related to hostilities with India. It is absolutely unacceptable to claim that we somehow cowered, he should be reprimanded for this.

As for Indian media and government, they have jumped at the chance to undermine us and simultaneously advance their propaganda war against us to paint us as an irresponsible nuclear state with links to militants. They also used Fawad Chuadhry’s illspoken remarks on Feb 27 (mistakenly referring to Pulwama). In both cases, they distorted what Ayaz Sadiq and what Fawad Ch said for their purpose.

Our idiot politicians should be more careful, and asked in future not to bring up any matter such as this, they are not competent enough to speak with due care and too immature to leave certain matters aside.

Agree both statements were harmful, but Fawad Chd was a slip of tongue and he has publicly corrected himself - and it doesn’t make sense why would govt. claim victory for an IED explosion?

On the other hand Ayaz Sadiq’s statement has to be seen in the context too - PDM has already asked PA soldiers to disobey officers, raised slogans against Army, and called for freedom of Baluchistan. Secondly Ayaz Sadiq is still sticking to his statement and PMLN is standing behind it now: That is India was able to coerce its way through threats in the release of Abhinandan, and the diplomatic victory Govt. of Pakistan and Armed forces have been celebrating is a lie and Indians actually won in the end. Ayaz Sadiq’s latest spin still doesn’t change the fact that in the end Pakistan was scared and the release was not a peace gesture as we had been claiming. And clarifying whether Ayaz Sadiq is lying is irrelevant now; These statements have severely damaged our nuclear posture vs India now - the posture is of utmost importance as there is a good amount of bluff involved in this - the damage of this stupidity will be seen in the next escalation between India and Pakistan.

 

[Jungibaaz]

Agree both statements were harmful, but Fawad Chd was a slip of tongue and he has publicly corrected himself - and it doesn’t make sense why would govt. claim victory for an IED explosion?

ON the other hand Ayaz Sadiq’s statement has to be seen in the context too - PDM has already asked PA soldiers to disobey officers, raised slogans against Army in rallies, called for freedoms of Baluchistan, accused top leadership of Army of treason already. Secondly Ayaz Sadiq is still sticking to his statement and stance and so is the rest of PMLN: That is India was able to coerce its way through threats in the release of Abhinandan, and the diplomatic soft victory Govt. of Pakistan and Armed forces we have been celebrating is a lie and Indians actually won in the end. These statements have severely damaged our nuclear posture vs India now - the damage of this stupidity will be seen in the next escalation between India and Pakistan.

I more or less agree with you, but one small qualification for my own opinion here. I can see why you and others are seeing it in this light, to most neutral observers Ayaz Sadiq statements deserve more scrutiny and raise more suspicion given the anti-army backdrop. That’s fair enough.

In my view, it was most probably a slip of the tongue to mention the army chief, I could well be wrong, but it seems unlikely to me. However even if his comments were reserved for SMQ only... they’d still be highly objectionable and wrong. If he had amended his speech to not mention the army chief before accusing SMQ of cowering, the impact would be less but still very bad.

If N league are sincere, personally I would like to see a public reprimanding of him and rejection of his statement by the party. Otherwise even if only SMQ was the subject of his ire. He picked the wrong subject to comment on and that too in such a careless manner.

 

[PakFactor]

It’s their job to turn a statement against SMQ to one against the army chief, but even so, a seasoned politician should have better sense than to speak about the minutes of a national security meeting or to sling mud on the government on a matter related to hostilities with India. It is absolutely unacceptable to claim that we somehow cowered, he should be reprimanded for this.

As for Indian media and government, they have jumped at the chance to undermine us and simultaneously advance their propaganda war against us to paint us as an irresponsible nuclear state with links to militants. They also used Fawad Chuadhry’s illspoken remarks on Feb 27 (mistakenly referring to Pulwama). In both cases, they distorted what Ayaz Sadiq and what Fawad Ch said for their purpose.

Our idiot politicians should be more careful, and asked in future not to bring up any matter such as this, they are not competent enough to speak with due care and too immature to leave certain matters aside.

The whole thing is this, you have 1 spokesman who delivers a message on behalf of government, opposition should deal with internal issues and resolve them and not get involved in Foreign and Military Affairs or even comment on that let alone national security related issues. DG ISPR should be the only one with that role, and that's it.

 

[Jungibaaz]

The whole thing is this, you have 1 spokesman who delivers a message on behalf of government, opposition should deal with internal issues and resolve them and not get involved in Foreign and Military Affairs or even comment on that let alone national security related issues. DG ISPR should be the only one with that role, and that's it.

Fully agree.

 

[Imran Khan]

@ayaz SADIQ

 

[TheDarkKnight]

I more or less agree with you, but one small qualification for my own opinion here. I can see why you and others are seeing it in this light, to most neutral observers Ayaz Sadiq statements deserve more scrutiny and raise more suspicion given the anti-army backdrop. That’s fair enough.

In my view, it was most probably a slip of the tongue to mention the army chief, I could well be wrong, but it seems unlikely to me. However even if his comments were reserved for SMQ only... they’d still be highly objectionable and wrong. If he had amended his speech to not mention the army chief before accusing SMQ of cowering, the impact would be less but still very bad.

If N league are sincere, personally I would like to see a public reprimanding of him and rejection of his statement by the party. Otherwise even if only SMQ was the subject of his ire. He picked the wrong subject to comment on and that too in such a careless manner.

Clarifications now wont matter. Here is the issue: Indians will believe that it was the Army chief whose legs were trembling and that their threats worked - in the next escalation it will come into play. And Ayaz’s deflection to SMQ isn't genuine; it was after a few days of propaganda on Indian media and reaction on Pakistani media as well ( i mean if Pakistani media is calling you a traitor then that really means something) that he came with a half-hearted correction when the damage was already done.
Fawad Chaudhry’s slip was so obvious and stupid that it didn’t even need a correction - but he still corrected it and got the right version out. Further that slip doesn’t leak any thing at all - if someone wants to take that as a proof for Pakistans responsibly for Pulwama IED blast then that person needs his head examined and doesn’t need to be taken seriously.

Ayaz’s statements were much more sophisticated and sensitive in nature that DG ISPR had to come out and clarify it to India. And Ayaz and PMLN are still together on this: The pilot was not returned as a peace gesture - indirectly the govt and Armed forces were bluffing - and the govt. along with the Armed forces (Army, Navy, Airforce) succumbed to Indian pressure and threats (yes both govt. and all Armed Forces as the decision was collective). This also gives Narendra Modi a big boost too for his internal and external politics.

 

[Rank]

I more or less agree with you, but one small qualification for my own opinion here. I can see why you and others are seeing it in this light, to most neutral observers Ayaz Sadiq statements deserve more scrutiny and raise more suspicion given the anti-army backdrop. That’s fair enough.

In my view, it was most probably a slip of the tongue to mention the army chief, I could well be wrong, but it seems unlikely to me. However, even if his comments were reserved for SMQ only... they’d still be highly objectionable and wrong. If he had amended his speech to not mention the army chief before accusing SMQ of cowering, the impact would be less but still very bad.

If N league are sincere, personally I would like to see a public reprimanding of him and rejection of his statement by the party. Otherwise even if only SMQ was the subject of his ire. He picked the wrong subject to comment on and that too in such a careless manner.

The first question is, why he raised 27, Feb 2019 event at this time? I don't care whatever he said. The 27 Feb event literally hurting Indians. Bihar elections going on. Raising such an issue is directly linked with so many things. Look at the design of information warfare. First Indian media have raised Ayaz Sadiq's statement. When they have achieved their core goal (apni kutay wali honay pe kapra dalnay at least in front of their pissfool janta), suddenly moved to Fawad Chaudry's statement just to shadowing their govt/RAW relations with PMLN who instructed NS and tabar. They successfully made Pakistan's victory controversial at least in front of their public still I have seen many Indians know the reality and many are still making fun of BJP supporters.

This deliberate action/statement of Ayaz Sadiq is not just a slip-of-tongue or some intentions. India has achieved many things in the background. Now Indian media on the instructions of their papa Modi tabar, trying to fool their AND OUR public by raising ONLY Fawad's statement so that kise ko ye shak na paray kay ye karwaya kisnay hey..

I keep saying Bajwa and co are SPINLESS. They can't do jack. Ayaz Sadiq can't hide behind the immunity. If there is article 66 then there is another article + oath. Apparently, he should disqualify forever and this is a serious high-treason case. I mean what is ghadari then? can anyone explain??

 

[Al-zakir]