Shehbaz seeking deal for four members of Sharif family: Gill

Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Political Communication Shahbaz Gill has claimed that Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has sought a “deal” for four members of Sharif family including himself.

Addressing the media in Faisalabad on Sunday, Gill said under the proposed deal a “pardon” had been sought for PML-N leaders — Shehbaz Sharif, Hamza Shehbaz, Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif.

He added that the PML-N president had also pledged that they will fly to London if his ‘proposal’ was accepted.

The PM’s aide said the PML-N leaders were anxious to flee the country. “But Prime Minister Imran Khan will not let them escape and they all will go to jail,” he added.

He said that Shehbaz will be put behind bars very soon, claiming that a suspicious transaction of Rs4 billion had been traced recently from the bank account of the PML-N leader’s peon.

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Gill said the PTI-led government wanted former premier Nawaz, who has been living in London since 2019, to return Pakistan, adding that his visa will expire soon.

On Friday, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed while taking a swipe at the Sharif family said that they no longer had any role in country’s politics.

Addressing a press conference, the minister cited some documents and claimed that PML-N President Shehbaz was “more corrupt” than his elder brother Nawaz.

Rashid asked the Sharif family to “stop waiting for any good opportunity”. “All the four Sharifs are minus from national politics,” he said, referring to Nawaz and Shehbaz besides, Maryam and Hamza.

Responding to a question about the much-talked-about return of Nawaz Sharif to the country, the interior minister said that the country’s politics would remain unchanged whether or not the former prime minister came back to Pakistan.