Fauzia Wahab Points to Link between Terrorists and PML-N
Information Secretary for the ruling Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Ms Fauzia Wahab has created ripples in the booming political tension between the federal government and the major opposition party – the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) – by claiming that the latter has connections with banned religious extremist organizations.

News sources reported Ms Wahab stating that PML-N possesses vote bank of extremists, enabling them to win elections in Punjab in 2008. She said she thought that PML-N had always had links with Sipah-i-Sahaba and the Lashkar-e-Taiba. She is also said to have expressed the possibility of extremists reacting to PML-N’s unfulfilled promises resulting in the recent terrorist attacks in Lahore.
Meanwhile, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif blamed the federal government for not providing adequate intelligence to the Punjab government so as to enable them to thwart terrorism. Answering Ms Wahab’s claims regarding PML-N’s nexus with terrorists, he commented that it was regrettable to see politicians engaged in point scoring over the issue of terrorism.





