Daily Times

LAHORE: Former Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif have on Sunday returned to Pakistan from London after 12 days.

The two arrived at Lahore Airport and left for their Jati Umra residence immediately. The workers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) warmly welcomed their leaders.

Earlier at London airport while talking to media, the former PM was highly critical of the apex courts as he declared the verdict in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and Secretary General Jahangir Khan Tareen a proof of ‘partisanship’ on the part of the judges.

“While the salary not even received in my case was counted as an asset, business worth hundreds of thousands of pounds being conducted from Niazi Services Limited, an offshore company, which Imran Khan had himself admitted to have owned was defended by none other than the bench itself”, Nawaz said.

“Imran Khan filed a 4-page petition against me and went home. The bench started hearing the petition and decided the case against me on a prayer not even forwarded by the petitioner but when we filed a petition against Imran Khan, the bench started defending his case”.

“An elected PM is ousted over an Iqama and a person who has admitted to his offshore company is let off. This contradiction cannot work. We used to have a ‘doctrine of necessity’ in the past, now each bench of the apex court invents its own doctrine of necessity”.

“You legitimize dictators, legitimize martial law governments, allow the martial law dictators to amend the constitution as they wish, confer upon them powers that even judges don’t have; this can’t go on”.

Nawaz Sharif added that he was ready to pay any cost for upholding the constitution of the country but ‘I won’t let this continue’.