LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry has said that the PML-N leader involved in laundering billions of rupees, allowing him to go out of Pakistan is a mockery of the law.
On a social media website Twitter, the minister reacting to LHC’s approval of removing Shehbaz Sharif’s name from the blacklist, said all legal options will be exercised against the decision.
فیصلے کے خلاف تمام قانونی راستے اختیار کریں گے، ہمارے نظام عدل کی کمزوریوں کی وزیر اعظم کئ بار نشاندہی کر چکے ہیں لیکن اپوزیشن اصلاحات پر تیار نہیں اور اس کی بڑی وجہ یہ ہے کہ اس بوسیدہ نظام سے ان کے مفاد وابستہ ہیں
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) May 7, 2021
The Information Minister said that even village councils don’t take judgments this quickly. He said that it would be unfortunate if Shehbaz manages to escape this way. Earlier, Shehbaz had guaranteed the return of Nawaz Sharif, what happened to that guarantee, he asked.
The Prime Minister has pointed out the weaknesses of our justice system many times but the opposition is not ready for reforms, mainly because its interests are tied to this rotten system, he said.
He said that Shehbaz Sharif had submitted a guarantee to the court in order to get Nawaz out of Pakistan. Now, instead of bringing Nawaz back and issuing notices to Shehbaz for giving a false guarantee, he himself is being sent out of the country, Fawad Chaudhry added.
اربوں روپے کی منی لانڈرنگ میں ملوث شہباز شریف کو باہر جانے کی اجازت دینا قانون کے ساتھ مذاق،اتنا جلد فیصلہ تو پنچائیت میں نہیں ہوتا اس طرح سے ان کا فرار ہونا بدقسمتی ہو گی، اس سے پہلے وہ نواز شریف کی واپسی کی گارنٹی دے چکے ہیں سوال یہ ہے کہ کہ اس گارنٹی کا کیا بنا؟
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) May 7, 2021
Lahore High Court (LHC) has allowed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif to fly abroad for treatment.
Justice Ali Baqir Najafi on Friday announced the ruling on Shehbaz Sharif’s petition seeking exclusion of his name from the blacklist. The court permitted the opposition leader to go abroad for eight weeks.
It is worth mentioning here that Shehbaz Sharif had filed a petition in LHC, stating that he is a cancer survivor and needs to go abroad for treatment, but the federal government had put his name on the blacklist.
The Ministry of Interior, federation and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) were named as respondents in the plea.
On April 23, Shehbaz Sharif was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail after getting bail from the Lahore High Court in a money laundering and assets beyond means case.
Shahbaz was arrested in September 2020 in money laundering and assets beyond means case by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after a court in Lahore had rejected his bail application in the money laundering case.
The NAB had alleged that Shahbaz’s family had assets of around Rs16.5 million till 1990 which increased to over Rs7 billion in 2018.
