ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday filed an application with an accountability court to summon Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry to explain his controversial claim that the “court would soon send former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to jail”. Talking to the media outside the accountability court, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said the accountability judge should take notice of the information minister’s statement. She was referring to the minister’s remark during a talk show at a private television channel wherein he claimed the former premier Nawaz would be imprisoned soon in the remaining graft references against him.
She alleged that PTI ministers, including Fawad Chaudhry, Punjab Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi and others, had become “self-proclaimed spokespersons for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by levelling baseless allegations against PML-N leaders”. “The information minister has tried to influence the proceedings of the accountability court. The question is why state institutions are not taking action against them who are interfering in their jurisdiction. This has also put a question mark on the credibility of institutions, Marriyum added.
She added, “On the one hand there is adjudication going on at the accountability court and on the other hand Fawad Chaudhry has set up a separate court. We ask the judge to summon Fawad Chaudhry to explain as to who has told him that Nawaz is going to be arrested for sure.” Further taking a jibe at the federal cabinet members, Marriyum said that all of them needed psychological counselling. “They need to realise that their leader is now the prime minister of the country and they are cabinet members. I am sure that they need psychological counselling in this regard.” “If the government and its ministers remain in the state of utter confusion, I will suggest that Imran Khan should convene a special meeting of the cabinet where they should be shown the cartoon movie ‘Donkey King’ so that the cabinet members and the whole government can learn from it.”
Published in Daily Times, October 27th 2018.
