ISLAMABAD: Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the ex-premier, has asked Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to take notice of the changes in Balochistan’s politics terming them and the senate elections as ‘suspicious’.
While talking to the reporters at the accountability court, hearing corruption cases against him and his family, Nawaz said that although he was unaware of the inside story but Pakistan People’s party’s (PPP) co-Chairman Asif Zardari’s acts were shameful.
He also grilled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan over his party members voting for the PPP candidate in the recent Senate chairman elections when Khan had claimed that he would never side with Zardari.
He also added that any ‘doctrine of necessity’ was unacceptable and elections were not to be delayed.
Nawaz also said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was vengeful against him adding that NAB had a role in making Musharraf government, which he claimed that the latter had admitted in an interview. He was referring to the election of Zafarullah Khan Jamali as prime minister during the military dictator’s regime.
The former PM also stated that NAB’s laws made by dictators were unchangeable unfortunately.
He also commented on former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s death anniversary today saying that he was trying to change the course of history where an elected PM was hanged. He also stressed that ‘there should be legislation against martial laws and those who sanctify it in the parliament’.
Nawaz advocated the voting rights of overseas Pakistanis and also claimed that he hadn’t spoken with the PM Abbasi on his recent meeting with Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar.
Nawaz showed concern that due to the cases against him and his family the court had refused pleas by him and his daughter Maryam to go abroad and meet his ailing wife whose radiotherapy was underway. Maryam said that the doctors will report on her mother’s health and future actions after the checkup.
She also expressed amusement over the cases lodged against so many government officials. “How this government can work”, she wondered.