Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and Senate Opposition Leader Aitzaz Ahsan said on Saturday that former PM Nawaz Sharif would no return to Pakistan because he feared that he would be treated the same way former Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon was treated.

“Everything in Pakistan seems to be going in the opposite direction,” he told reporters in Islamabad.

Ahsan said it was ridiculous to see that Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi called on Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif instead of it being the other way around.

Speaking on Sharif’s return to the country, the PPP leader said people were talking about the PML-N chief striking a pact similar to the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). “But who will Nawaz strike such a deal with?” he asked.

“Only [PM] Shahid Khaqan Abbasi can do that. Otherwise, nobody can help Nawaz now.”

Ahsan said corruption cases in Punjab and Sindh were major challenges for the newly appointed National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.

“Despite being indicted, Sharif is roaming freely but Sharjeel Memon, who is yet to be indicted, is behind bars,” he added.

Separately, PPP Secretary General Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmad reacting to PTI’s Imran Niazi’s speech in Dir said that “Niazi was totally ignorant of history of Pakistan”.

Published in Daily Times, October 29^th 2017.