Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Friday cast a spotlight on rumours circulating about the new Chief Justice and newly appointed army chief saying that there is an impression that they are sympathisers of the ruling government.
“Khursheed Shah said that the impression is that the new CJ’s sympathy is with PML-N,” Khan told journalists in Lahore referring to Shah’s speech in the Parliament yesterday.
“There is also this impression that the changes in the army are for PML-N,” Khan added. “I don’t know if there is there is truth to this. All I know is that when Maryam Nawaz tweets saying a storm has passed… what does it mean? They [PML-N] themselves are giving weight to the perception that the change that has come is suiting them.”
Khan further said that Panama Papers case involving Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family is pending in the Supreme Court.
“How has the storm passed? A new CJ and new COAS have come. What message are you giving people? This is a wrong impression.”
“They are hurting the public’s confidence in institutions.”
Khan was reiterating a statement made by Pakistan People’s Party leader Khursheed Shah who said, “It is irritating when we hear the incoming chief justice is the PML-N’s own man.”
“Perhaps you (PML-N) do not say this, but the people do,” the opposition leader said to NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who had responded to Shah’s statement by asking him not to make the chief justice’s appointment controversial.