Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has come down hard on the former ruling party for failure to deliver.

Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, she said the ex-PM was the mastermind of the May 9 incidents and he has been exposed after rioting.

The minister said May 9, 2023, would always be remembered in the country’s history as a black day when the “miscreants” had set the building of Radio Pakistan ablaze.

The PTI regime fooled people and contrary to tall claims of accountability, the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa locked the accountability bureau, she added.

The minister said the people would be provided access to affordable cinema houses. Under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan is now moving on the path of development and prosperity, she maintained.

She said the PTI regime had no development plan for the province though it had promised to build universities, hospitals and schools. Regrettably, they did not build even a room in any hospital.

She said the PTI “miscreants” burnt the memorials of martyrs, mosques, ambulances, schools and hospitals on May 9.

She expressed the hope that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would never vote for “the conspirator” again as they had always contributed to the country’s development.

She said the “foreign agent” tried to create political instability in the country and tried to stop the CPEC project by obstructing the visit of the President of China to Pakistan.

She said “the incompetent, inefficient and corrupt” former prime minister was thrown out of power through a no-confidence motion for the first time in Pakistan’s history in April last year.

And when the police reached Zaman Park with a warrant, the PTI arsonists attacked the law enforcers with petrol bombs and burnt their vehicles, she added.

The minister said when summoned by courts for accountability in the Toshakhana theft case, theft of 190 million pounds, Al-Qadir Trust and prohibited foreign funding, he was seen in their premises with a bucket or dustbin on his head.

He considered himself above the law and believed that he was above the accountability process, she opined. She maintained the “dark day of May 9, 2023” would always be associated with “this incompetent and inefficient foreign agent” in the country’s history.

On that day, the four-storey building of Radio Pakistan was set on fire by throwing petrol and for two days the miscreants kept trying to attack it, she added. All the archives of Radio Pakistan and the model of Chagai Hill were burnt, while the APP offices on the fourth floor were also set on fire, she added.

Paying tributes to the engineers of Radio Pakistan, she said they restored the transmission immediately after the May 9 attack. Those who attacked Radio Pakistan were the same people who had attacked the PTV and they would never be forgiven by the nation for burning the precious archives of Radio Pakistan, she added.

Marriyum said the renovation of the studio of Radio Pakistan had also started on an emergency basis as per the directives of the prime minister. The minister said the foundation stone of a cinema had also been laid within the premises of Radio Pakistan in Lahore with the objective to provide affordable big-screen entertainment to the people.