Impossible to disqualify PM in a month: Sethi

Aapas ki Baat Nov 6

LAHORE: Najam Sethi on Tuesday said the PTI would try to establish that the Sharif family was lying by citing contradictions in statements, adding that it was impossible to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a month.

Expressing his views in Geo News programme ‘Aapas ki Baat’, Sethi said the statements based on lies issued in Parliament were also against law, but the other party was fully prepared, adding that the answer to the question regarding establishing the companies was very easy.

He said the Sharif family would give answers to the three questions asked by the court on Tuesday; however, the issue was whether the judges would be satisfied by those or not. There might be some questions on the next hearing, which could make the PML-N happy, he opined.

Sethi said he could not believe that there was any option other than forming a commission. Imran Khan wanted to get a decision to end the issue and had repeatedly stated that they would remove the government, he recalled.

Sethi said if the verdict was in favour of the Sharif family then Imran would again resort to street protest, claiming that they did not get justice. “It is Khan Sahab’s track record,” he remarked, adding that Imran’s statement should not be given much importance.

According to Sethi, the Sharif family looks confident. The Qatari prince is staying at Raiwind, not for celebrating Basant. He is fully prepared for every kind of question. If the entire episode is true then there is no need for preparation.

He (Sethi) could not understand how the prime minister could be disqualified in next five or six days. The Qatari prince would answer the question about money trail. The programme host, Muneeb Farooq, said the PTI had attracted majority of the PPP vote bank and the PPP currently was no more the second choice for the people in Punjab.

Sethi said although Bilawal’s mother Benazir Bhutto rendered great sacrifices for democracy, he had not fully active in politics so far and would need time. Bilawal had decided that he would become prime minister and revive the PPP, he added.

Sethi said there was no threat to Bilawal in Sindh and claimed that he had vote bank in Punjab; whether he assumed the prime minister office or not, he was seeing himself as a political player.

He opined that the results for PPP in next elections would not be poor like that in 2013. However, Bilawal had not matured yet and would have contact people and make sacrifices for the purpose.

Sethi said not much expected from Bilawal in 2018 and it would have to be seen how much space Asif Ali Zardari was going to give him and how he would use that. Bilawal should give an impression that he wanted to learn, not teach and avoid sharing his intentions, he advised.

Sethi said Imran could give tough time to Nawaz, if he organised his party during the next one year, adding that elections were won by political parties, not through protest movements or big rallies.