Daily Times

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry Friday said that the arrest of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif wasn’t enough, demanding that the looted money should be brought back to Pakistan.

Addressing a press conference in the federal capital, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader said that PML-N was asking the very same people to welcome Nawaz upon his arrival whose money he (Nawaz) had usurped.

“The allegations against Nawaz Sharif are quite simple. He was elected the prime minister thrice, he was liable to disclose his sources of income yet he remained unable to do so,” Chaudhry said, adding that many important verdicts in cases against the PML-N supremo were still pending.

“Arresting him isn’t enough, Rs300 billion should be brought back to Pakistan,” he stressed. “The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the government of Pakistan should take necessary actions to bring the looted money back.”

Furthermore, the PTI spokesperson said that Nawaz’s sons, Hassan and Hussain, were safeguarding the looted money.

He attributed the situation at hand to the inexperience of the caretaker government. “If it were our government, we would have neither arrested [the PML-N workers], nor shut down the mobile service,” Chaudhry said.

According to PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, around 400 workers have so far been detained and arrested from Lahore and Rawalpindi. The Punjab government says it has detained the party’s workers on account of terrorism.

“It had been earlier said that protests could damage the economy, however, PML-N itself was protesting,” he said.

Speaking about the upcoming General Election 2018, Chaudhry said that tasks needed to be accomplished through the provincial apex committees. “Timely, peaceful polls are the biggest challenge at the moment,” he said.

Published in Daily Times, July 14^th 2018.