- Fawad Ch urges SC to hear cases against Sharif family as it heard cases against Imran
- Qureshi pens letter to NA speaker to reconfirm resignations of PTI MNAs
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced on Thursday that it would move Supreme Court against the acquittal of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz, PML-N leader Hamza Shehbaz and others in corruption cases.
“The PTI has decided to file an application in the top court under Article 184 against the bail and acquittal of the Sharif family in various cases. The court has taken a suo motu notice and we want to become a part of the case,” PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry said during a media talk, flanked by former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
“PTI is trying that through National framework the entire country goes towards elections. Pakistan cannot continue like this”-@fawadchaudhry pic.twitter.com/ZaIaKs4nry
— PTI (@PTIofficial) December 15, 2022
Saying that the Sharif family have committed many ‘robberies’ on Pakistan’s treasury, Fawad said that cases against Maryam, Shehbaz and Hamza should be opened and the top court should review the decisions.
He urged the Supreme Court to hear these cases at the same pace it heard cases against former prime minister Imran Khan regarding his disqualification.
Letter to NA speaker to reconfirm resignations
Qureshi, on this occasion, said that PTI had handed over 123 resignations to then-speaker Qasim Suri, but the current National Assembly speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf showed ‘favouritism’ in accepting the resignations on the government’s request and only chose resignations from 11 constituencies.
Vice Chairman PTI @SMQureshiPTI talks about the MNA’s resignations. pic.twitter.com/Pw44gPl9n8
— PTI (@PTIofficial) December 15, 2022
“If you wanted to accept [the resignations], you should have accepted all of them or you shouldn’t have accepted a single one. Despite this, PDM candidates were defeated in these constituencies and we got 75 per cent of the seats,” he added.
He said that the party has decided to resign from the assemblies and he, as vice chairman of the party, has written a letter to NA Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf to agree upon a time in the coming week for the verification of the resignations of the party members.
Fawad said that PTI has announced its resignation from NA seats, that they should be accepted, and that general elections be held as soon as possible. “Assemblies will be dissolved in any case, whether on December 17 or 23. The date will be decided by Imran Khan,” he maintained.
Fawad said that after the dissolution, 70 per cent of the country would go into election mode. The country should go towards general elections as we’re heading towards destruction under the present government’s rule, he added.
The former information minister said that PTI has appealed to all the ‘respectable circles’ of the country for elections. “It is common knowledge where interference is happening in politics and where it is not,” he added.
He said that there were high hopes from the new leadership of the armed forces to take Pakistan towards stability. “We hope that all institutions would play a role in taking Pakistan towards stability.”
To a question, Qureshi said that the government was not at all serious about negotiations and wanted to escape elections. “They only want complete relief from the cases against them. Some of their cases are closed and some are pending. Until all the cases are over, the government will not want elections or the dissolution of the assemblies,” he said.
In the letter, Qureshi pointed out that 123 PTI MNAs submitted written resignations to former Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri on April 11, 2022. “The lawmakers had submitted resignations as per constitution and assembly rules”, the letter added.
وائس چیئرمین تحریک انصاف شاہ محمود قریشی کا سپیکر قومی اسمبلی کو خط۔ شاہ محمود قریشی نے اسپیکر قومی اسمبلی سے اگلے ہفتے ملاقات کا وقت مانگ لیا۔ پی ٹی آئی ارکان اسپیکر کے پاس پیش ہوکر استعفوں کی تصدیق کرنا چاہتے ہیں- @SMQureshiPTI pic.twitter.com/JihDJ5es7w
— PTI (@PTIofficial) December 15, 2022
“The resignations were accepted by the then Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly on April 13, 2022,” it noted, adding that Secretary National Assembly Tahir Hussain had also issued a notification in this regard.
However, he said that in a clear attempt by the current government to avoid general elections in the country, the clear order of the former Deputy Speaker was not implemented. “Later, only 11 resignations were accepted illegally on July 28,” it stated.
