Avenfield reference highlights how system of accountability was used to discredit & defame Nawaz & Maryam: PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (SABAH): Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that Avenfield reference highlights how system of accountability was used to discredit and defame Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

In a statement issued on twitter on Friday, PM Shehbaz Sharif said that such a vendetta-driven process led to disruption of the country’s democratic evolution and caused political instability that took a terrible toll on politics.

Meanwhile in a separate tweet, PM Shehbaz Sharif said that he is deeply grieved at the loss of young lives in a horrific suicide attack at a learning center in Kabul. He said that words can’t express this sheer barbarism. “We send our deepest condolences and most sincere sympathies to the bereaved families and people of Afghanistan” he said.

PM Shehbaz Sharif said that as I stated in my address at United Nations General Assembly, terrorism continues to threaten not just Afghanistan and Pakistan but also the world. He said that the international community should not let its guard down. He said that strengthening global cooperation against changing threat matrix of terrorism is need of the hour.

It is worth mentioning here that a suicide bomb attack on a classroom of hundreds of people preparing for exams in the Afghan capital on Friday killed at least 19 people, with most of the casualties girls, police and a witness said.

The blast ripped through Kaaj Higher Educational Center, which coaches mainly adult men and women ahead of university entrance tests.

“We were around 600 in the class. But most of the casualties are among the girls,” Akbar, a student who was wounded in the attack, told a foreign news agency from a nearby hospital.

“Students were preparing for an exam when a suicide bomber struck at this educational centre. Unfortunately, 19 people have been martyred and 27 others wounded,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.

Families rushed to area hospitals, where ambulances were arriving with victims and lists of those confirmed dead and wounded were posted on the walls.

“We didn’t find her here,” a distressed woman looking for her sister at one of the hospitals told media. “She was 19 years old. We are calling her but she’s not responding.”