MULTAN: Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Rasheed said on Wednesday that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has practically left the ministry and the prime minister is currently looking for another person to take his place.
He was addressing a news conference in Multan, where he also levelled criticism against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for having caused immense damage to the country’s economic status.
Rasheed also said that a few ministers from South Punjab belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were planning on leaving the party.
Continuing in his tirade against the ousted prime minister and his party, Rasheed said that the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case would decide the fate of PML-N. He said that there would be no one to save the Sharifs should they be indicted in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case. He referred to the alleged money laundering in the case as being “the mother of all crimes”.
Rasheed also criticised Nawaz for not having readied a successor to his place as party leader and for not giving his brother Shehbaz Sharif a chance to lead even though he was himself disqualified.
The reference against Sharifs for money laundering were initiated following Dar’s confession in 2000 when he admitted to being an accomplice to the Sharifs in the crime.
There is no official proof of Dar’s resignation from the ministry yet. However, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi removed Dar from the chairmanship of the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet earlier in August. Abbasi himself assumed the position of the committee’s chairman subsequently.
