Plan under way to shift Sharjeel case to Punjab: Bilawal

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SUKKUR: PPP Chairman Billawal Bhutto Zardari said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif celebrated court decisions against his grandfather ZAB and his mother, besides all of his opponents, adding that now he is raising hue and cry over when the courts have announced verdicts against him and his family.

Addressing the inauguration ceremony of 300-bed National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases ( NICVD) in Sukkur on Saturday, he accused Imran Khan of promoting Talibanisation in the KPK. He said the PTI leader has paid Rs 270 million as extortion to a KPK madressah this year and had also paid Rs 300 million to the same in the last year. He said both Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif are power hungry. He said Nawaz Sharif has always manipulated the judiciary verdicts. He said it is a known fact that Nawaz got Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari disqualified over trumped up charges. However, when the courts awarded him life imprisonment, Nawaz Sharif fled the country after securing presidential pardon from military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf. Chiding the disqualified leader further, the PPP Chairman said Nawaz Sharif never respected the Parliament as he would hardly attend the parliamentary sessions. Similarly, he never visited his own government in Balochistan which led to his party’s downfall there.

Bilawal expressed serious concerns over a judicial observation made during a trial regarding shifting of Sharjil Memon’s case to Punjab and termed it extremely dangerous. Critcising the NAB for its “double standards” he said the former information minister Sharjil Inam Memon was arrested from the airport and was sent to prison from the hospital whereas Dr Asim Hussain was similarly persecuted. However, the same NAB, he charged provides VVIP treatment to Nawaz Sharif.