Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has urged Sharif family to return homeland and face the courts.
Addressing a press conference in Sialkot on Sunday, she lashed out at the leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and asked them to hold such party meetings in Pakistan instead of London.
She said, “What an irony it is that opposition leaders are devising a policy to protect their corruption, while sitting in London.” Dr Firdous said that the 18 questions will continue chasing PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif and added that his narrative had completely failed in Pakistan. The special assistant said that paper companies of PML-N president inflicted a loss of billions of rupees on country’s economy. She said they cannot befool the people of Pakistan anymore.
Dr Firdous said that corruption and wrong economic policies of the PML-N government had brought the country on the brink of economic disaster. She said that the incumbent government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan was committed to resolve people’s problems. Dr Firdous said that improved economic indicators showed that the economy was on a path of growth.
A group of PML-N leaders held a meeting in London on Saturday with party president Shehbaz Sharif to discuss the party’s role in various parliamentary matters, including the pending legislation on an army chief’s tenure and the appointments to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Among the members present in the meeting were Ahsan Iqbal, Senator Pervaiz Rashid, Khawaja Asif, Rana Tanvir, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Marriyum Aurangzeb. Former finance minister Ishaq Dar, who was declared an absconder by the Supreme Court in 2017, was also present during the discussions.
The session was held at Maroush Gardens on Edgware Road.
Afterwards, the group gathered at Avenfield apartments to inquire after party supremo Nawaz Sharif’s health. A brief press conference was also held following the PML-N members’ meeting with Nawaz. The PML-N leaders’ visit to the United Kingdom took place at a time when their leadership faces a string of accountability cases back home. As they met in London, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz moved the Lahore High Court with a request to direct the government to remove her name from the Exit Control List (ECL).
