Sharif’s daughter Maryam booked for creating public disorder
lahore — Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ’s daughter and opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s vice-president Maryam Nawaz was on Tuesday booked along with over 2,000 party members for holding an anti-government rally in Lahore.
The rally by the 11-member opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) was held here on October 16 before the Gujranwala public meeting.
Maryam had called Prime Minister Khan a “selected” in the rally.
She dared the prime minister to arrest her as she is not afraid of going to jail.
The First Information Report (FIR) was registered for chanting slogans against the government and the state institutions, causing trouble for citizens, blocking roads, using loudspeakers and microphones, and violating coronavirus standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Maryam’s husband Capt (retd) Mohammad Safdar was also named in the FIR. He was earlier arrested in Karachi for raising slogans at the Quaid-eAzam mausoleum. He was later released on bail.
According to the FIR, Maryam was accused of instigating the party leaders and workers to get ready to send Prime Minister Khan’s government home and chanted slogans against the state institutions.
Earlier, the Lahore police had registered a sedition case against Sharif and others for speaking against the army and judiciary while addressing the party meeting via a video link from London.
Meanwhile, PML-N chief and opposition leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif was sent to jail on Tuesday in a money laundering case.
Shahbaz, the younger brother of three-time former prime minister, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on September 28 after a court here rejected his bail application in the Rs7 billion money laundering case.
Next day, the 69-year-old former chief minister of Punjab province was sent on a physical remand by an accountability court.
On Tuesday, an accountability court of Lahore rejected the NAB’s plea seeking further extension to Shahbaz’s physical remand. He told the court that the NAB didn’t ask any questions about money laundering during his three-week detention. —