Anwarul Haq Kakar, Hanif Abbasi clash over wheat crisis

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi and former caretaker prime minister, now a sitting senator Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar exchanged heated words over the scandal of wheat import during Kakar’s caretaker government.

The confrontation, which took place at a local hotel in Islamabad, saw both figures trading accusations and threats.

Sources report that the argument stemmed from Abbasi’s public criticism of the interim government’s handling of the wheat shortage.

Kakar reportedly confronted Abbasi, questioning his authority to raise allegations in a recent TV show and asked, “Did you come to arrest me?”

Hanif Abbasi told Anwar-ul-Haq, who is defending his decision to import wheat despite a surplus in the local market, “I swear you are a thief. You made money in the wheat scandal. I told the truth in the (TV) program.”

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Anwar Haq Kakar, responding to Hanif Abbasi said, “If I talked about Form-47 (of the Election Commission of Pakistan), then the PMLN people will be hiding their faces”.

Abbasi stood by his statements, asserting their accuracy and accusing Kakar of involvement in the wheat scandal.

However, Kakar later said that the reporting of the event was being ‘twisted’.

He added that he and Abbasi were fellow parliamentarians and had even spoken on the phone today.