ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz Sharif, PML-N chief organizer asked for accountability in the judiciary and said Pakistan needed “honest judges” instead of the ones who allegedly favored Imran Khan.
Maryam Nawaz while addressing a workers convention in Rawalpindi said that judges named in the audio leak should have “moral courage” to resign from their post. She was referring the leaked audio clip which purportedly featured a conversation between former chief minister Parvez Elahi and a Supreme Court judge.
PML-N leader said the entire judiciary was not lopsided but there were only some judges in the judiciary who were allegedly biased. “Imran Khan is looking to get support from the judiciary to come back to power after failing to get support from the establishment,” she alleged.
She claimed there were some followers of former spymaster retired General Faiz Hameed in the judiciary and they needed to be held “accountable”.
Maryam Nawaz targeted the superior judiciary days after an audio clip surfaced featuring conversations between Parvez Elahi and a judge of the top court. This clip invited strong criticism from superior bar councils and also prompted a meeting of the SCP judges to take stock of the situation.
The PML-N leader also talked about an audio clip wherein PTI leader Yasmin Rashid was purportedly asking ex-Lahore police chief Ghulam Mehmood Dogar about the status of his reinstatement following a court order.
During the convention, Maryam Nawaz questioned the “special treatment” meted out to PTI Chairman Imran Khan in cases pending against him in courts.
In contrast, Nawaz Sharif and other PML-N leaders were summoned at an hour’s notice, she claimed. She said Imran Khan alleged PML-N had launched a drive against the judiciary but audio leaks of the PTI negated his own claims.
She, in light of the leaked clip featuring ex-CCPO Dogar, taunted Imran Khan and said that the day Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah decided to arrest him, Dogar will not be able to save him.
She said that Imran Khan launched only one project in Rawalpindi which was the Rawalpindi Ring Road project but “he started this to make money”. She claimed Imran Khan got “loans worth Rs24,000 billion, but did not spend a single penny no development in Rawalpindi”.
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