Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Information Secretary Shafqat Mahmood asked the government on Thursday to implement the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Asghar Khan case and direct the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to investigate all politicians accused of receiving money for the 1990 poll fraud.
Reacting to the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) senior leader Khurshid Shah’s admission that the government would not investigate Nawaz Sharif in the case, Shafqat said the cat was out of the bag and the secret alliance between the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had been fully exposed.
Khurshid had told media on Wednesday that the government did not plan on holding an inquiry into the allegations that Nawaz had received money from intelligence agencies in 1990, as ordered by the Supreme Court. He also said that the case had now been buried.
Shafqat added that the Supreme Court had issued clear directives that all politicians involved in receiving money from the ISI, to rig the 1990 elections, should be investigated by the FIA.
He said the expose by Khurshid was nothing new for the PTI workers, as Imran Khan had already told people that the leadership of both political parties was hand in glove, and they had no intentions of exposing each other’s misdeeds.
“Both parties have been covering up each other’s misdeeds,” he added.
He said that it was pity that the PPP, who had blamed Nawaz for receiving money from the ISI to rig the 1990 polls, was now covering up PML-N’s malpractices.
The PTI leader said the people would never allow these politicians to scratch another’s backs and if no action was taken against the politicians involved then the PTI would decide its future strategy accordingly.
Since the Supreme Court (SC) verdict in the Asghar Khan case, the PML-N appears to have been placed on the back foot. In defensive mode, the party and its spokesmen have been literally flailing in the water trying to offer their mea culpa and shift the focus onto alternative ways of following up on the SC verdict as well as throwing red herrings in the path of its implementation. To illustrate, sometimes the PML-N argues that the verdict does not indict the PML-N or the Sharif brothers, only those who violated their oaths of office, at other times they shift the focus of their counter-attack on doubts about the impartiality of the FIA, whom the SC has charged with investigation of the politicians alleged to have received funds from the ISI to manipulate the 1990 elections against the PPP. When Younas Habib has said clearly that he conferred bundles of notes on PML-N leaders, this acquisition by PML-N leadership carries no weight. It is open to public now.
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