Defense Minister Khawaja Asif responded on Saturday to imprisoned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan’s new plan to pressure the current government into negotiating on two important demands by saying that the “state is providing everything to its people” and that the former ruling party’s call for civil disobedience would fail like its “previous attacks on Islamabad.”
Speaking to News, Asif stated, “Civil disobedience [movement] becomes successful when the people are not dependent on the state,” adding that the state provides all services for its citizens.
“No one would deprive family from these facilities,” he stated.
“Whoever tabled this suggestion to the PTI is seemingly unaware of the impact that such movements had during the British era,” he remarked.
