PML-N distancing itself from Sharifs will be positive development: Fawad

Minister claims PML-N and PPP leadership not willing to hold talks on any issue except seeking relief in their cases

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday said that it will be a positive development if the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) distanced itself from the Sharif family.

“It is necessary for political parties to change a leadership which suffers from moral and financial corruption,” said Fawad in a tweet.

He further stated that the PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif left his workers behind during a difficult time and sought refuge in London. “No one respects such a leader,” he added.

اگر نون لیگ شریف فیملی سے خود کو علیحدہ کرتی ہے تو یہ ایک مثبت پیش رفت ہو گی، سیاسی جماعتوں کو اخلاقی اور مالی کرپشن کا شکار قیادت کو بدلنے کی ضرورت ہے نواز شریف ہر مشکل وقت میں کارکنوں کو تنہا چھوڑ کر لندن پناہ گیر ہو گئے ایسے لیڈر کی عزت نہیں رہتی

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) January 17, 2022

On holding dialogues with opposition parties, the minister said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) -led government wants to hold talks with political parties on electoral and judicial reforms. "These reforms are not possible without negotiations with the opposition," he added.

“But [the] PML-N and [Pakistan Peoples Party] PPP corrupt leaderships do not want to hold talks on anything except relief [in their cases],” claimed Fawad.

حکومت سیاسی جماعتوں سے بات چیت کرنا چاہتی ہے ہم چاہتے ہیں انتخابی اصلاحات ، عدالت اور احتساب کے نظام میں اصلاحات آئیں یہ اپوزیشن کے بغیر ممکن نہیں لیکن نون لیگ اور پیپلز پارٹی کی کرپٹ قیادت اپنے مقدمات میں ریلیف کے علاوہ کسی اور موضوع پر گفتگو نہیں کرنا چاہتی

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) January 17, 2022

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The minister’s tweets came a day after he claimed that four of PML-N’s top leaders told ‘someone’ that they should be considered to replace Nawaz.

Addressing a press conference in Lahore, the minister said that PML-N's top four leaders met ‘someone’ and said that the party supremo did wrong to the country and they should be considered instead.

He also criticised the opposition parties over their anti-government protests, saying the opposition was divided. Fawad claimed that except for the PTI no political party will be able to field its candidates on all seats -- 1,100 in total -- in the next general elections.