ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb, on Friday, expressed the confidence that the apex court would give its verdict as per the law and the Constitution and not in accordance with the whims and wishes of the vested interests.
She was talking to reporters outside Supreme Court on Friday.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by presenting three generations of the Sharif family for accountability, notwithstanding the fact that he enjoyed constitutional immunity, has taken a step for the higher good. Now nobody would be able to use immunity as a shield in the future after this case.
Marriyum said that with the power of the ballot Nawaz Sharif would again have a landslide victory in 2018 elections and the elements involved in hurling baseless allegations at him would have to bite the dust.
She said that not a single case of misuse of power, corruption or graft had ever been reported or unearthed against Nawaz Sharif during his three tenures as the Prime Minister and two terms as Chief Minister of Punjab, despite the fact that the biased JIT had hired the services of a detective relative of one of its members.
The minister said that some elements had been trying to put a spin on the observations of the judges during the hearing of the case and to use them for promoting their ulterior motives. She said that the remarks and observations of the judges during the course of the proceedings of the court were only a running commentary and not a judgment unless they were included in the written order of the court.
Marriyum said that the Sharif family submitted two more documents in the court which were duly certified, verified and notarized.
She reiterated that the Sharif family had the legal right to rebut the unverified documents of a mala fide JIT adding that it should have presented the so-called documents it had procured against the Sharif family to Hussain Nawaz during his investigation.
The minister said that the court had noted and recognized the point raised by legal counsel of Sharif family that law firms in England remained open 24/7 and even visit residences of their clients for legal assistance.
Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the Sharif family had registered its reservations in regards to JIT’s constitution and its conduct with the court and the bench had also announced that the JIT report was neither binding for them nor it was a court order. The minister observed that Sharif’s legal counsel in his concluding remarks made it clear that documents relating to the last 40 to 50 years had been submitted in the court.
To a question she said that Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was one of the close confidants of the prime minister and rumours of his estrangement with the party were unfounded and baseless.
She said that the PML-N leadership believed in independence of judiciary and it remained in the forefront of the movement for its restoration.
Later talking to PTV, she said that on the issue of Hussain Nawaz picture leak the court had acknowledged the stance taken by the PML-N. She congratulated the media for reporting the Panama case on merit.
