Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed addresses media in Lahore. PHOTO: PPI
Former finance minister Ishaq Dar could be extradited back to Pakistan from United Kingdom within the next 15 days, Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has claimed.
He said this in a press conference in Lahore on Saturday.
“Hassan and Hussain Nawaz will not return... only Ishaq Dar will be extradited... it could happen before my next presser, which is scheduled in two weeks," he said.
The government claims it is in talks with Britain for Dar's extradition to the country, who is accused of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income.
Last month, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan was going to revoke capital punishment for the accused who will be extradited from other countries.
The development had come a day after British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a joint news conference with Qureshi in London declared that the UK would not sign “politically-motivated” extradition treaties with any country.
Meanwhile, the railways minister added that a forward bloc, a breakaway faction of the PML-N, was in the making and as many as 37 lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly were already on board.
Prime minister's adviser on political affairs Naeemul Haq had revealed in a tweet last month that 15 MPAs had met the prime minister, expressing their “full confidence” in the PM and Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar.
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