Exemption to Nawaz, Maryam: AC refusal against basic human rights, says Marrriyum

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that refusal by the Accountability Court to grant seven-day exemption from appearance in the court to Nawaz Shairf and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who wanted to visit ailing Kalsoom Nawaz was a negation of the fundamental human rights.

She was talking to the media at the Ladies Gala organised by the Parks and Horticulture Authority at Nawaz Sharif Park Rawalpindi on Wednesday.

The minister said the decision smacked of vendetta against Kalsoom Nawaz who had stood up against the persecution of a dictator. Marriyum said that Nawaz Sharif was waging a war for the sanctity of vote and the court decision would further strengthen his resolve to continue with his struggle to uphold the truth.

The Minister said that similar verdicts would be delivered against anybody who dared to raise his voice for democracy. Marriyum said that on the one side a dictator who violated the Constitution was sent out of the country on the pretext of backache and on the other hand a thrice elected prime minister and his daughter were not being allowed to visit his wife and mother respectively who was terribly sick, which was a revenge in the name of accountability.

She said Nawaz Sharif was subjected to revenge for serving the masses and now he was being victimised for upholding the sanctity of vote.

She said that even after completion of six month of trial on 22nd March no corruption has been unearthed against Nawaz Sharif.