ISLAMABAD/KARACHI:
After unveiling of the JIT’s report, both the two major
opposition parties – PTI and PPP – on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif must immediately resign, with the PTI chief Imran Khan also calling for
putting names of the PM and his family members on the no-fly list.
“This is game, set and match. Now, it is a matter of time to
see when they will leave the PM House. I will say [names of] entire [Sharif]
family needs to be put on the Exit Control List,” Imran told a press conference
shortly after the Supreme Court made the JIT report public.
Jang Group served notice by top court over controversial
story
Flanked by senior party leadership, Imran congratulated the
nation: “Now, the PTI does not need a street movement; rather the party will
soon have to hold street celebrations.”
Before holding the press talk, the PTI chief chaired a
consultative meeting attended by senior party leaders. In the meeting, the
PTI’s legal team briefed the participants on the JIT report.
“He [Nawaz Sharif] has been declared a criminal. The next
Monday (when SC will hold hearing of the case) is too far away. What morality
does he have to sit in the Prime Minister’s office?” Imran Khan questioned,
adding that the PTI had brought the ‘ruling mafia’ under the laws of Pakistan.
Imran said the JIT report vindicated the PTI stance that it
was extremely difficult to carry out this investigation against Nawaz Sharif as
multiple attempts were made to obstruct justice.
“They [Sharifs] misused institutions to save their skins.
They blackmailed and coerced institutions and tried to undermine their
credibility to hide their corruption,” he said, adding that his family and the
PTI workers were also targeted when they raised voice against injustice and
corruption.
He said after the release of JIT report, the National
Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq should also resign, as in the past when the PTI
asked him to send a reference against the PM, he [Sadiq] ‘in an attempt to
blackmail’ sent a reference to the ECP against him [Imran].
“What credibility does he [Sadiq] have now? They (the ruling
party) tried to blackmail us in the assembly as well. They are rightfully named
the godfathers as they blackmail and coerce and have been doing so for 30
years,” Imran added.
He once again criticised owner of the Jang/Geo group, Mir
Shakil-ur-Rehman, saying the SC decision about the group and its owner and
publisher was commendable and endorsed the PTI’s long-standing stance over the
issue.
“I am so happy Mir Shakil has been brought to this point
today as well where contempt notices are issued to him [and his group]. The
Jang group has tried to save a criminal by printing stories to discredit the
JIT,” he said, adding: “Mir Shakil is fully complicit in these attempts to
obstruct justice.”
PML-N bins the report as a ‘piece of trash’
Imran was of the view that today’s SC proceedings and
presentation of the JIT report before it was the beginning of a New Pakistan
where the law would be equal for all and the powerful would be held to account
under the law.
“If the Supreme Court was not independent today we would see
them [the PML-N] attacking it again. But the nation set a precedent during the
lawyers movement and they know the nation will not let anything happen to our
courts,” Khan said.
Talking about a defamation case filed against him by Punjab
CM Shehbaz Sharif, Imran said the CM should be ashamed of himself as he was
member of a corrupt family.
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