Daily Times

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz on Friday said PML-N absconding leader Nawaz Sharif will hopefully be brought back from London by January 15 as optimum legal and diplomatic efforts are under way in this regard.

“I assure you, by the Grace of Allah Almighty, by January 15, Nawaz Sharif will be in any jail of Pakistan. We are fully active to bring him [Nawaz] back to know the answer that how he made the assets and took the money abroad,” he said while addressing a press conference here.

The minister said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, will never spare those who looted the national money. “Not only the looters of the national kitty will be taken to task through court of law, but also the plundered money will be recovered,” he reiterated. The government, he said, would never let happen that children of Sharif family remain staying comfortably abroad after making trillions of rupees assets through illegal means.

Elaborating the government efforts for repatriation of Nawaz Sharif, Shibli Faraz said although at present no extradition treaty exists with the United Kingdom, “we are in touch with the UK government through diplomatic channels to use all available legal means in that regard.”

Commenting on a recent press conference of Maryam Safdar, the minister said she seemed disturbed after emergence of the CCTV footage of arrest of Safdar Awan, which clearly shows that her spouse was arrested by the Sindh police. Besides, the footages revealed that Safdar Awan was very comfortable with the police when taken to the police station under a VIP protocol, he said. “In the aired footages, there is no breaking of door and the forced arrest,” he said, adding that the federal government will wait for more footages.