AML leader said ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party members full episode

AML leader said ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party members full episode

Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has claimed that more than 60 lawmakers were all set to part ways with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and only waiting for the ‘whistle to blow’.

Speaking at a joint press conference with MNA Jamshed Dasti in Multan on Wednesday, the AML leader said ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party members have decided to distance from confrontation and out of those around 60 members of the National Assembly – 20 to 25 belong to southern Punjab, Express News reported.

No country opposed Nawaz Sharif’s ouster [as the prime minister]… only Nawaz Sharif kept on asking ‘Mujhay Kyun Nikala’ [Why I was ousted],” he added.

Rasheed said the deposed premier did not even allow his younger brother, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, to head the party despite being disqualified from becoming a parliamentarian.

The biggest conspiracy against democracy, the AML chief said, were ‘five families’, adding that Shehbaz Sharif’s Hudaibiya Paper Mills case was the ‘mother of all crime’, which if opened will sink the Sharif family.

Opposition parties demanded on Wednesday that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar should resign in the wake of his indictment by an accountability court earlier in the day.

Dar pleaded not guilty before the court, which is hearing a National Accountability Bureau reference against him for possession of assets beyond his means.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters that the finance minister should tender his resignation immediately for the sake of the country’s economy.

He added that Dar’s focus would now be diverted towards the case, not allowing him to serve as a finance minister properly.Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Saleem Mandviwalla addressed a press conference where he demanded that Dar should step down.

“We [PPP] had recommended during a meeting of a Senate committee that the finance minister should resign but the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) didn’t agree to it,” he maintained.

At a separate press conference, PPP leader Sherry Rehman, pointing out the indictment of Dar, said deposed PM Nawaz Sharif was creating unrest in the country.

“Nawaz Sharif isn’t trying to save democracy, he’s trying to save his own skin,” she added.

Speaking on the recently passed electoral reforms bill, Rehman said the PPP’s stance had remained clear that it would protect democracy, not an individual.