PDP President Mehbooba Mufti said on Thursday that if the political situation in Pakistan is “nothing new”, instability and uncertainty in the neighboring country will have an impact on India.
He also said that the ruling party in Pakistan, instead of fighting the opposition politically, uses agencies to put them in jail and “unfortunately the same process is being used” in India.
“What is happening in Pakistan, unfortunately, is nothing new. Since Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whenever a government comes, the opposition is imprisoned. It will affect us. Instability and uncertainty will affect us, but this disease has also infected d “somehow our country. If you see that Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from being a member of Parliament, (Manish) Sisodia was jailed,” Mehbooba told reporters in Tral area of Pulwama district.
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Commenting on the arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Mufti said the ruling party in Islamabad was using agencies to imprison opposition leaders.
“In Pakistan too, the ruling party instead of fighting the opposition politically takes shortcuts and uses agencies to put them in jail. The same process, unfortunately, is being used here…Rahul Gandhi has been convicted, sentenced to two years and disqualified for six years. Whatever happens in Pakistan we seem to be heading in the same direction,” he added.
