‘I went to Murree, otherwise 40 people would have died’: Rasheed

Murree (HRNW) Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has said that more people would have died in Murree had he not gone there to monitor the situation and rescue people.

“If I had not gone to Murree, 30 to 40 people would have died instead of 23. Nothing was in place in Murree. I don’t want to say anything else,” he said while speaking to the media in Rawalpindi.

He went there on humanitarian grounds and not as an interior minister.

“I evacuated 700 cars and checked each one of them for people trapped inside. It is not the interior ministry’s responsibility, but I stayed there for two days,” he said.

“People were fighting the police [to enter Murree]. I had to call the Rangers to stop people. Otherwise 500 more cars would have entered and it would have been an even bigger catastrophe.”

The minister spent some time talking about the Opposition’s plans to agitate against the PTI government in the shape of long marches by Bilawal Bhutto and the JUI-F. He said that the Opposition can do three marches instead of two and even then they would fail to dislodge the government.

“Shehbaz Sharif said he is nightmare for Imran Khan… he is not a nightmare, he is instead a pleasant dream,” quipped Sheikh Rasheed. “In three years, neither could we do anything to him, nor could he. All four Sharifs are subtracted from politics.”