Shahbaz praise of COAS is ‘job application’: Imran

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Thursday charged that the Punjab Chief Minister and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif's sudden praise of the Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa sounded more like a ‘job application’. “Shahbaz Sharif’s sudden praise for the COAS sounded more like a job application!” he reacted in a tweet.

Meanwhile, PTI Information Secretary Fawad Chaudhry Thursday warned of action by his party if former premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz did not submit within 72 hours their request for the live telecast of corruption proceedings under way against them in the NAB court. In a video message, he said the father and daughter were demanding yesterday that the proceedings in which they had been appearing should be aired live. Fawad pointed out that on Thursday when the accountability proceedings resumed, Nawaz and Maryam’s counsel did not utter a word about the matter.

“Nawaz and his daughter would never want the accountability proceedings to be aired live,” Fawad insisted. After attending the corruption hearing on Wednesday, Maryam Nawaz had tweeted that proceedings of the accountability court should be broadcast live so the nation could know what the truth was.

Speaking about the references filed against the ruling Sharifs, the PTI leader said cases against them were being proven true one after the other. He noted that at first Nawaz’s children said they did not own the properties, even the one in London, which were stated in the references against them.

"Nawaz even refused owning the offshore companies but his claims were proven wrong after the UK registry showed its records," he maintained. The PTI leader said now the former premier had also denied taking salary from the Capital FZE.

However, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the former prime minister have been caught in their own web, Fawad asserted. "They do not know how to free themselves and also do not have responses to questions being posed to them in the court. “Nawaz Sharif targets institutions in the morning and wants them to give him relief in the evening,” the PTI leader contended.