ISLAMABAD: State-owned Pakistan Television (PTV) censored Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s press conference on the NSC meeting called over ex-PM Nawaz Sharif’s recent comments regarding the 2008 M
umbai attacks.
PM Abbasi held a press conference in Islamabad and briefed the media about the National Security Committee (NSC) conference and also his meeting with former premier Nawaz Sharif. According to reports, t
he presser was not aired by mainstream private media, while it was aired on state-owned PTV after ‘necessary omissions’.
In his presser, t
he premier said that he and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif fully su
pport former premier Nawaz Sharif after his comments regarding the 2008 M
umbai attacks caused a stir among the country’s political circles.
He also said that Nawaz told him he had not made the comments as presented by media outlets in Pakistan and across the border. “The statements attributed to Nawaz are factually incorrect and are being presented in a wrong light by the Indian media. He told me that he has not ma
de such comments and his words have been misrepresented and taken out of context.”
T
he premier also vowed to su
pport Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lifetime president Nawaz saying that the former PM had not called upon Abbasi to give any clarificati
ons and confirmed that the entire PML-N, including himself and president Shehbaz Sharif, stands by its lifetime head.
