Sharif wants to confront institutions: AML chief

AML chief demands Dawn Leaks report and Volume 10 of JIT report be made public

ISLAMABAD: AML leader and MNA Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Saturday criticised former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for heading on a collision course with state institutions and badmouthing the superior judiciary.

Speaking to the media at the National Press Club, the Awami Muslim League chief also opposed the suggestions by the ex-prime minister to do away with Articles 62 and 63.

“Nawaz Sharif has decided to take on state institutions head on and they are damaging the image of three future chief justices of the country,” said Sheikh Rasheed and added that the PML-N had failed to impress with its GT Road show. “It was a poor show. They failed to create the pressure they wanted to create through the GT Road show,” he said, adding that he was as much a proponent of Articles 62 and 63 as Nawaz Sharif was at the time of 18th Amendment.

Rasheed claimed that his August 13 jalsa at Liaquat Bagh was much bigger than the PML-N’s rally at the Committee Chowk on 9th.



“They are in a confrontational mode. It would be better for them to appear before NAB and courts [instead of boycotting the proceedings],” he said adding.

To a question about PML-N’s interim party president Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar, Sheikh Rasheed said Nasar and Anwar Aziz both were sacked by ex-PM Junejo in what he said ‘a towels corruption case’.

He also demanded that Dawn Leaks inquiry report as well as volume 10 of the JIT report be made public.

He also claimed that corruption of Rs200 billion had been committed during the LNG import deal by the incumbent government, against which he said he would petition the courts as soon as he got some documents related to the agreement.

To a question about his past when he was with Nawaz Sharif, Rasheed quipped that even Quaid-e-Azam was once in Congress.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 20^th, 2017.