The PML-N has sued former Mehran Bank president for Rs 10 billion for involving PML-N president Nawaz Sharif and Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif in the Mehran Bank scam.
The lawyer of Nawaz Sharif and Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has sent legal notices for damages of Rs 10 billion each to former president of Mehran Bank for defamation.
It has been stated in the notices that Younis Habib leveled fabricated and unsubstantiated allegations for damaging the political and social standing of Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif. In the notices served through famous legal firm Cornelius, Lane and Mufti Advocates and Solicitors, it has been stated that Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif were respectable and highly revered citizens of the country and the former had twice served as a prime minister of the country while the latter had twice been the chief minister of Punjab.
“Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif during their tenures took steps for the supremacy of law in the country, ensuring sovereignty and strengthening of national economy as well as utilized all resources for the welfare of the masses. It has further been observed in the notices that Younis Habib tried to conduct media trial of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif by leveling false and slanderous allegations for damaging their political and social status,” the notice said.
It has been stated that Habib gave contradictory statements on media and changed his stance again and again, which was proof of him being a liar.
After the receipt of notices Younis Habib should tender a formal apology in print and electronic media within 14 days of the receipt of the legal notice otherwise legal proceedings would be initiated against him seeking damages of a minimum of Rs 10 billion each, according to the notice.
The Mehran Bank scandal has resurfaced after many years and the names of a number of well-known political leaders have been mentioned in the context of their receiving substantial amounts of political bribes from a particular quarter. This has given rise to the levelling of allegations and counter-allegations by many politicians against each other. Many have denied receiving the money but, somehow, none has gone to any court of law in order to set the record straight. In this regard, PML-Q central leader, Senior Federal Minister and former Punjab chief minister Chaudry Pervaiz Elahi has given rather good advice in the form of a challenge to Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif. According to the reports appearing in the newspapers and on TV, Pervaiz Elahi, while talking to the media in Lahore said that the Sharif brothers keep insisting that they would go to the Supreme Court on every matter. He said that now that the country’s apex court is hearing the Mehran Bank scandal and the Sharif brothers are among the recipients of bribe money on political grounds, they had better go to the Supreme Court and get their position cleared in this regard. One may disagree with the policies of PML-Q or PML-N, but apparently the challenge thrown by the former chief minister to the sitting chief minister and his elder brother carries some weight, and voices the public’s opinion too. They should heed this good advice, irrespective of it being given by their political opponent, and approach the Supreme Court of Pakistan to become a party in the Mehran Bank scandal case in order to set the record straight. This country needs politicians with clean records.
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