‘Justice system in Pakistan paralyzed’

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Sher Afzal Marwat has said that the country’s justice system had been left completely paralyzed.

He was addressing a workers’ convention in Bajaur despite the ban imposed by the district administration on Saturday.

A day ago, the district administration and police had completely sealed the hujra of a former provincial minister, Anwar Zeb Khan of the PTI, in order to prevent the workers’ convention which authorities claimed was being held without a No Objection Certificate (NOC).

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He said that there was currently a fight taking place between old-fashioned politicians and a crumbling system on the one hand and an enlightened PTI on the other.

“Nawaz Sharif and his sons bought the London flats for Rs9 billion and then sold them for Rs18 billion to Malik Riaz,” he charged, saying that Maryam Nawaz had claimed that her grandfather had been the richest man in Pakistan while Shehbaz Sharif had stated that his father had experienced great poverty.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2023.