Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan Thursday said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had rejected the report of joint investigation team (JIT) in Panama case and would contest it in the court of law.
Talking to reporters at the Punjab Assembly cafeteria, he said the JIT report was nothing but a conspiracy to send packing an elected prime minister on technical grounds. ‘All the exercise is being done to tarnish the image of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family’, he said adding that the PML-N stood firmly behind the PM.
He said that the PML-N believed that the JIT report was fabricated and biased and requested the court to throw the report into bin. He said that the PML-N would challenge the report in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The provincial minister said the team, without leaving the country, ended up going everywhere.
Coming down hard on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan, Sanaullah said his efforts to remove the prime minister would not succeed. He said that Nawaz Sharif was enjoying overwhelm support of the nation and if the nation rejected him, the premier would leave his post himself.
To a question, Rana Sana said that the Punjab Assembly, during its upcoming session, would repose trust in the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He told a questioner that the prime minister would not resign regardless of the demands being made by the group conspiring against him as the people of Pakistan had elected him.
He said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif governed the country in a transparent manner. As prime minister he had completed thousands of projects while the JIT could not find any corruption in these projects.
Answering a question, the law minister said, ‘The PML-N respects the court and wants that it does justice in Panama case. We will accept decision of the apex court whatever it is’, Sana added.
He said that Joint Investigation Team’s report was the summary of the speeches delivered during the sit-ins. He said, ‘if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was not Sadiq and Amin, then not a single parliamentarian in Pakistan was Sadiq and Amin.
Sanaullah said that the JIT produced record of 60 years within 60 days and this was just possible due to ‘hidden forces’. ‘After its report, JIT has surfaced as powerful force of the country’, he added. He said, Nawaz Sharif’s political career was neat and clean and his every step was toward the national interest, adding that Muslim League’s every worker was proud of premier for his loyalty. ‘Premier’s family was billionaire in 1960s and at that time they were paying tax in millions’, he said and added if his successors are now billionaire then this must not be surprising.
Grilling PTI chief, he said that instead of blaming PM and his family for hiding wealth, Imran Khan should look the persons standing with him; Jahangir Tareen and Aleem Khan. He said that this must be probed that in 1990s Jahangir Tareen was a lecturer while Aleem Khan was a banker then how did they become billionaire in a short time. ‘If JIT is the only power to deal with the political matters then all matters should be handed over to it’, he added.
Endorsing Javed’s Hashmi’s allegation against Imran Khan, Sanaullah demanded SC to summon him for the justification. Though JIT prepared a biased report and the chances regarding disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif were very rare yet Pakistan Muslim League will accept court verdict. Talking on the recently media talk of PML-N Senator Zulfiqar Ali Khosa, Sanaullah said there was not a single PML-N parliamentarian leaving the party. He said that efforts should be made for free and fair elections of future instead of struggling to derail the system.
