Just days after Sardar Ayaz, a member of Pakistan National Assembly who belongs to the Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) dropped a bombshell in the assembly that, it was under pressure from the Indian government that led to the release of Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, the Pakistan government is considering registering a charge of treason against him.
Ayaz, who was speaking in the National Assembly had said that “legs were shaking and forehead perspiring” at a meeting of Pakistan’s top leaders, including Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, wherein Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi pleaded to release Wing Commander Abhinandan, saying if he was not released, India would attack Pakistan
“For God’s sake, let him (Abhinandan Varthaman) go back now because India is attacking Pakistan at 9 PM in the night”, Foreign Minister Qureshi had apprently told during that meeting.
This incident had taken place after India launched airstrikes on Balakot which housed the terror training camps of Jeish-e-Mohhmad, the terror group responible for carrying out the Pulwama suicide attack that led to the death of forty Indian Security personals.
In his speech Ayaz had also mentioned that Prime Minister Imran Khan had skipped the high-level meeting, which was attended by top leadership, including Gen Bajwa and Foreign Minister Qureshi.
Immeadetley posters of Sadiq Ayaz with the name “traitor” could be seen the the streets of Lahore and the poster reads “Mir Sadiq, Mir Jaffar… Ayaz Sadiq.” Mir Jaffar is a name synonymous with betrayel and treason as he as was the one who helped the British in the battle of Plassey and gave the decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah.
Reacting to this accusation, PML-N called this move to lable Ayaz as a trator as a move to “awarding traitor certificates” to Imran Khan’s political opponents.