LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Law Raja Basharat strongly condemned today’s incident and asserted that constitutional institutions and law enforcement agencies were not safe from PML-N hooligans.
Addressing a press conference along with Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan, Raja Basharat said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has repeated its history of attacking the Supreme Court. “Maryam Nawaz was summoned individually, but she brought a rally here,” he added.
PML-N workers and police clashed earlier today outside a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) office in Lahore where party leader Maryam Nawaz had arrived to record her statement.
Television footage showed men pelting stones at law enforcers, who were also seen assaulting some PML-N workers with batons, water cannons and tear gas.
In this regard, the Punjab government said that action will be taken against those involved in stone-pelting and damaging state property outside the Lahore NAB office.
Raja Basharat informed that the government took all measures to establish its writ. “Action will be taken against all those who gathered there illegally and those who pelted stones at police officers stationed,” he assured.
The provincial minister alleged that the stones were brought under the security protocol of Maryam. “The stones were distributed among workers and thrown at NAB and police,” he added.
“Maryam Nawaz claims that she was summoned to cause her harm. No, you were called to answer for the crimes you have committed,” he said. “All of this was done on the behest of Maryam,” he remarked.
On the occasion, Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan said that Maryam has carried forward her family’s traditions of launching attacks against LEAs.
“For the first time in 20 years since the establishment of NAB, the glasses of the anti-graft watchdog’s building have been broken,” he added.
Fayyaz ul Hassan further said that the act was a suicide attack on Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz’s politics. “Maryam has ended the politics of PML-N,” he concluded.
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