Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed Saturday said the leaders from opposition parties who challenge the legitimacy of the elected PTI government should read the history of Pakistani politics to know how and who brought their leaders Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nawaz Shairf into politics.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he said that people of Pakistan still remember how Zulfikar Ali Bhutto got inducted into the Sikander Mirza cabinet by writing a letter full of flattery and by which name he called Ayub Khan after the latter came into power.

About Nawaz Sharif, he said the former prime minister was launched by General Zia and General Jilani and Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) was set up to bring him into power.

He said that PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was looking for “selectors” even today to become the prime minister. He said that PML-N leader Khawaja Asif said in a television interview in the United States that Imran Khan was a religious-minded person, whereas his party was liberal and it could serve the US interests in a better manner.

Murad said, on the contrary, Imran Khan founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 1996 and struggled for over 22 years before coming into power. He said Imran Khan was offered premiership after 2002 elections, but he refused. He said the PTI came into power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2013 and in 2018 in the centre with the support of the masses who voted to power the most popular politician of the country, Imran Khan.

He said it was strange that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, whose entire family was facing cases of corruption and money laundering, was accusing others of corruption.