ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq’s recent statement regarding the election of the Senate chairman should be pondered over.
“Imran should also ask himself on whose orders his party gave votes in the election,” said Nawaz, adding that will the people who practice un-principled politics bring ‘change’?
The former premier also challenged the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief to own his vote for the Pakistan Peoples Party and also inform the public how the party’s candidate Chaudhry Sarwar bagged a Senate seat from Punjab.
The three-time premier made the comments while talking to reporters inside the accountability court hearing three corruption references against him and his family today.
Earlier, Nawaz, daughter Maryam and son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar arrived in court to attend the hearing.
Nawaz and his family are facing three corruption cases in the accountability court after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed references against them in light of the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers case.
As Judge Mohammad Bashir began the proceedings, the hearing of the Al Azizia reference was adjourned until tomorrow owing to the unavailability of Wajid Zia, the Panama case JIT head who was expected to record his statement in the reference today.
Zia has earlier recorded his statement and been cross-examined in the Avenfield reference.
The hearing of the Avenfield case will resume at 2pm today.
Nawaz and his family members were then allowed to leave the courtroom.
At the hearing of the Avenfield properties reference on Friday, the judge allowed Nawaz and Maryam to be exempted from the hearing but did not approve their request to be exempted from the next hearing — on April 23.
Moreover, the court had accepted NAB’s plea to submit new evidence in the case as well as introduce another witness.
