Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday termed Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s statement on providing security to Mansoor Ijaz as ‘contempt of court’.
Talking to media persons, he said Shahbaz Sharif’s announcement to provide security to American-Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz is contempt of the court, adding he will ask his lawyers to approach the court over the issue.
Malik said that he will file a request for a ‘contempt of court’ notice against the Punjab chief minister.
Shahbaz Sharif, on Thursday, said that he will take personal responsibility of providing complete security to Ijaz during his visit to Pakistan.
Shahbaz Sharif had said that he will welcome Ijaz and will provide him security till the last moment he is in Pakistan, and also offered the judicial commission probing the controversial memo to come to the province to record Ijaz’s statements.
In response to Shahbaz’s statement, Rehman Malik also said that the ‘cat is out of the bag’ now and that it was clear why Nawaz Sharif went to court for the Memo case.
Malik threatens to move court against Shahbaz
