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 Nawaz Sharif Says Change Will Come In A Few Weeks If Nation Stands

LONDON (92 News) – PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said that the change will come in a few weeks if the nation stands.

Addressing the PML-N's Central Executive Committee (CEC) through the video link on Wednesday, he said that they could not live as slaves in their own country. "We will lead a respectable life. Change will definitely come," he declared.

The PML-N Quaid said that the selected prime minister is incompetent and those who brought him would be repenting. "They are the real guilty and they will have to be answerable," he added.

He saluted PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif and other party leaders for countering cruelty. "People are unable to pay their utility bills and school fees of their children. Two-time meal has become a test. Medicines prices are sky-high and life-saving medicines have gone beyond the reach of common man," he maintained.

Nawaz Sharif said that wheat was exported during the PML-N tenure and now it was being imported. "My conscience does not allow me to accept the rigging in the elections. Today the parliament is being run by someone else. The parliament has been made a rubber stamp and a puppet," he added.

He declared that politics could not be done by compromising on self-respect. "I was thrice elected the prime minister and what treatment is being meted out to me," he said.

The government has decided in principle to write a letter this week to the British government, seeking deportation of PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, as he is an absconder not fulfilling the terms and conditions of the bail granted to him on medical grounds,” she on Sunday.

She said Nawaz Sharif left for London on November 19 last year for his treatment but was yet to be admitted to a hospital there, indicating that “it was a fixed match played by him, his party and a section of the media on his health”, paving the way for his departure to London.

Ms. Awan claimed that Sharif and his younger brother Shahbaz had gone to London to protect the businesses of their children.

“Nawaz faked his health condition,” she alleged.

Last week, the Punjab government refused to extend Sharif’s bail, declaring that it had found no “legal, moral or medical ground” necessitating an extension in his stay abroad.

The Lahore High Court had, in October last year, granted bail to Sharif on medical grounds for four weeks, allowing the Punjab government to extend it further in the light of his medical reports.

The Islamabad High Court had also granted bail to Sharif in the Al Azizia Mills corruption case, in which the former Prime Minister was serving a 7-year jail term, clearing his way to travel abroad for medical treatment.

PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal said if Sharif decided to return to the country, the Imran Khan government will request him not to come.

He said the PML-N chief will challenge the government’s decision not to give him extension in his stay abroad in the court shortly.

PML-N Punjab information secretary Azma Bokhari told the PTI that if Pakistan wrote to the British government for Sharif’s deportation, the PML-N would also write to the U.S. government seeking opening of a case against Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding his [“illegitimate”] child.

She said Sharif was seriously ill and had heart-related complications, adding that the former Prime Minister was going to have a heart procedure shortly.

“Prime Minister Khan and his team should stop playing on the health of Sharif and concentrate on governance matters instead,” Ms. Bokhari said.

Pakistan request British government for Nawaz Sharif

Firdous Ashiq Awan, Special Assistant to Pakistan Prime Minister on Information, said Nawaz Sharif has neither undergone any heart surgery nor was he admitted to hospital for any emergency during the last three months.

Pakistan will request the British government to deport Nawaz Sharif, a senior official said while alleging that the “absconding” former Prime Minister was playing a “fixed match” regarding his illness while in London.

 Casting doubts on the illness of the 70-year-old three-time former Prime Minister, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan said Nawaz Sharif has neither undergone any heart surgery nor was he admitted to hospital for any emergency during the last three months. He left for London in November last for treatment after the Lahore High Court allowed him to go abroad on medical grounds for four weeks.

According to Nawaz Sharif’s physician, the top leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is suffering from complex multi-vessel coronary artery disease and substantial ischemic and threatened myocardium for which he is due to undergo surgery.

But Ms. Awan said, “It is time to bring back the VIP prisoner who is having a lavish stay abroad.

Pakistani opposition leader arrested on money laundering charges

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Pakistan’s opposition leader arrested on money laundering charges

Tuesday, 29 September 2020 3:26 PM  [ Last Update: Tuesday, 29 September 2020 3:49 PM ]

 Security officials escort Shahbaz Sharif (C), Pakistan's opposition leader and brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, at the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court in Lahore on September 29, 2020. (Photo by AFP)

Javed Rana

Press TV, Islamabad

These are supporters of Pakistan Muslim League of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif and surrounded by this crowd is Shahbaz Sharif, the opposition leader in the Lower House of the parliament and the president of the country’s main opposition party.

Shahbaz Sharif barrested on money laundering charges

Shahbaz was arrested from the premises of the high court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore after Lahore High Court rejected his previously granted bail.

The court turned down his bail after investigators provided evidence of Shahbaz Sharif’s involvement in an organized money laundering through his employees and close associates.

Shahbaz has denied all charges, saying the assets being probed have no connection to his family.

Nawaz Sharif, the thrice elected former prime minister and the elder brother of the leader of the opposition was convicted on money laundering charges and banned to contest general elections by the courts in recent years. Nonetheless, he was allowed to leave Pakistan on medical grounds, which the government says was based on medically manipulated reports as a legal justification only to escape from the country.

The arrest of the leader of the opposition has come over a week after Pakistan’s political opposition formed a new alliance named the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to bring down the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The opposition parties have accused the government of pursing a selective process of accountability and failing to come up with required vigor to hold powerful retired military generals accountable over their alleged involvement in mega corruption scandals, a lingering source of public concern in Pakistan.