Pakistan neta who exposed Bajwa's fear of India morphed into posters with PM, Abhinandan

PM Imran Khan-led Pakistan government is mulling registering a treason case against a senior Opposition leer for his controversial statement that country handed over captured Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman to India under pressure.

Posters dub Pakistani leer as 'traitor'

Amid backlash Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leer Sardar Ayaz Siq is facing over his remarks against Pakistan Army chief, posters featuring Siq with PM Narendra Modi and Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman came up in parts of Lahore on Saturday.

posters, which dubbed him as “traitor”, went viral on social media after first being spotted in constituency of former National Assembly speaker. In some of posters, Siq’s face was morphed to resemble IAF's Wing CommanderVarthaman. 

PML-N has strongly reacted to move blaming PTI government for 'awarding traitor certificates' to its political opponents. PML-N Punjab information secretary lawmaker Azma Bokhari said one who put up "traitor" posters of Siq must be having a criminal record like in past cases registered against PML-N leership.

'Legs were shaking & forehe perspiring'

Sardar Ayaz Siq on Wednesday said that General Qamar Javed Bajwa's "legs were shaking and forehe perspiring" at a meeting of Pakistan's top leers when Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi h pleed to release Wing Commander Abhinandan, saying if he was not released, India would attack Pakistan.

"Legs were shaking and forehe perspiring, and foreign minister (Qureshi) told us, 'For God's sake, let him (Varthaman) go back now because India is attacking Pakistan at 9 PM in night'," Siq said, recalling meeting which was also attended by parliamentary leers, including those from Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and PML-N, and ded that "India was not planning to attack...y just wanted to kneel before India and send back Abhinandan."

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Responding to Siq's remarks, Pakistan Interior Minister Ejaz Shah told reporters that government was pondering over registering a treason case against Siq as police have received a number of complaints against him. He said those toeing line of India should better go to Amritsar.

37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot was captured by Pakistani Army on February 27 after his MiG-21 Bison jet was shot down in a dogfight with Pakistani jets during aerial combat after he'd shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16. This was days after IAF, in early hours of February 26, 2019, bombed Jaish-e-Mohamm (JeM) terror camps in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan and avenged Pulwama terrorist attack that claimed lives of 40 CRPF personnel. He was released on night of March 1 by Pakistan.

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