ISLAMABAD – In a surprising turn of events, the federal government has reportedly mulled to appoint Senator Mushahid Ullah as minister for information and technology.
According to multiple news sources, Sen. Mushahid Ullah is currently in Japan for his medical checkup but the federal government has asked him to rush back to Pakistan.
Reportedly, Mushahid has left Japan and is all set to be sworn in as minster for information and broadcasting after the ouster of Senator Pervaiz Rasheed who was sacked by the government for alleged involvement in Dawn’s controversial story.
Mushahid Ullah had been a minister for climate change in 2015 however, in an interview to BBC, he alleged the country’s former spy chief Gen. Zaheer Ul Islam had conspired to stage a military coup during Imran Khan’s 2014 sit-in.
Khan said in the interview that Islam had worked to trigger conflict between the prime minister and Army chief General Raheel Sharif, and had planned on exploiting subsequent unrest to take over the country.
The bid failed, he said, when the civilian Intelligence Bureau (IB), which was tapping some of Islam’s telephone conversations, presented evidence of the plot to the prime minister, who then informed the Army chief. “There were voices of several people in that tape. There was also [the] voice of Zaheer-ul-Islam Abbasi,” Khan had told BBC.
The remarks sparked controversy and so the government asked him to tender resignation as he was on a visit to Maldives.
Political analysts are of the view that the government was all set to pitch Mushahid against the establishment once again.
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