Government to challenge LHC order in Shahbaz case

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has said the Lahore High Court (LHC) decision to let Pakistan Muslim League-nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif go abroad depicts an old mindset and vowed to challenge the verdict.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, who was accompanied by PM Adviser on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar, said that the Pakistan Tehrik-e-insaf (PTI) reserves the right to appeal the Lahore High Court decision.

Chaudhry said the PTI is fighting for bringing about change in the system.

He said Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid health problem is far critical than Shahbaz but she is geting treatment in Pakistan. He asked why Sharif brothers could not get their treatment in Pakistan.

He said the court decision is in fact a manifestation of an outdated system.

He said if Shahbaz could not bring back his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, for whom he had become a guarantor in the court, then how his own guarantee that he would return the country could be acceptable?

Chaudhry said that they were expecting that the court would inquire from Shahbaz about his guarantee in Sharif’s case and would direct him to bring him back but some people in PML-N are misleading the court.

Meanwhile, the PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said that Nawaz Sharif was ousted from office through a judicial coup ater political destabilisation was created in the country in 2017-18.

He told a TV channel that the political destabilisation was the reason for economic collapse, which forced the PTI government to go for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal in its first year.

To a question if the country was progressing so much, why the new government went to the IMF in 2018, the PML-N’S senopr leader said this story starts from 2017 when political destabilisation was created and a sitting prime minister was removed through a judicial coup.