PML-Q demands PM’s resignation over Panama leaks

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down in the wake of the revelations made in the Panama leaks.

Speaking at a news conference, PML-Q provincial President Intikhab Chamkani, Vice-President Muazzam Butt and others said the prime minister should apologise to the nation as the Panama papers had proved that the Sharif family had offshore companies.

They said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan have pushed the country towards backwardness.  A number of people from various political parties announced joining the PML-Q on the occasion.

Terming the imposition of the Customs Act in Malakand division as an injustice, the PML-Q leaders supported the people in the Malakand division in demanding its withdrawal. They said the federal government had signed an agreement with the people of Malakand in 1960 and now it had violated its own pack by extending the Customs Act to the region.

They said the PML-Q had nominated Arbab Mir Afzal Khan as its nominee for the by-election on the provincial assembly constituency PK-8, which fell vacant after the death of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Member Provincial Assembly Arbab Akbar Hayat.