KARACHI: Former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Memon on Saturday criticised judicial system for “open discrimination”.
Speaking to media outside the accountability court, Memon took a jibe at the Sharif family and said: “the people who have been given protocol are roaming in the streets of London yet they are crying and complaining.”
“We have our reservations but won’t start any movement against the judiciary. We are not Nawaz Sharif that we will attack the courts,” he remarked.
Memon went on to say: “When the verdict came in his favour Nawaz distributed sweets among party workers, but when the verdict was against him he threatened to start a movement”.
Further criticising Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif, he said that Sharif’s politics has been buried, now he is trying to pose himself as a political martyr. “He will not succeed in his plans,” Memon added.
Memon was referring to Nawaz Sharif’s remarks made on December 19, in which he claimed to start a movement against “dual standards” of the judiciary.
Nawaz had remarked that the same law should be there for everyone.
Memon was taken into custody on October 23 along with other suspects from outside the SHC main building after the court revoked their interim bail in a case pertaining to the corruption of Rs5.76 billion in the provincial information department.
Memon has also been charged in another case which pertained to his alleged role in getting the state land allotted and adjusted in 43 Dehs at throwaway prices for a property developer, depriving the public exchequer of billions of rupees in revenue.
Sharjeel Memon, who had returned to Pakistan in March this year after his two-year-long self-imposed exile, is facing several charges of misappropriation and corruption.
A reference filed against him related to the alleged award of government advertisements at exorbitant rates, causing loss of more than Rs 5 billion to the national exchequer.