Imran granted exemption, Nawaz, Maryam denied: minister

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb talking to the media outside the Accountability Court here Tuesday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif along with his family members was appearing in the court three to four times during a week in deference to the law and Constitution but he and his daughter were denied exemption from court appearance for going to London to enquire after the health of his wife and mother respectively, whereas the court in the next room granted exemption to the darling Imran Khan who was a culprit in a case of terrorism for attacking a police SSP, Parliament and the state-run TV headquarters, for going out of the city.

Marriyum said that the entire nation had witnessed how Parliament and TV building were attacked.

The minister also pointed out that the case file of another darling Asif Ali Zardari had gone missing from the office of NAB. She said that the entire world knew that during PPP rule the hands of Zardari were on the pockets of others.

Marriyum said that after having failed to find any corroborative evidence of corruption against Nawaz Sharif, who twice served as the chief minister of Punjab and had the distinction of thrice serving as Prime Minister of Pakistan, reference after reference were being filed against him.

She said that in spite of crying hoarse to dub Nawaz Sharif as the biggest culprit, they had failed to establish anything against him. Referring to Wajid Zia, the minister said that he was not a witness in the case as his status was that of a collector and an agent.

The minister said that Imran Khan was having fits of lying and in that state of mind he acted like a loose-cannon without realising the implications of what he was saying, which was very deplorable.