LAHORE: Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar responded to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s allegations.
As per details, former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar said that he never halted or banned the projects start by the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government.
The allegations that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made are not true and levelled merely for political gains, he added.
The former CJP said that PM Shehbaz Sharif should not drag judiciary in politics.
Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the former chief justice Saqib Nisar had banned the projects started by the PML-N government.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lambasted the former chief justice supreme court for banning and halting the projects started by the then PML-N government. He said that in out of 56 companies’ corruption cases, they did not prove corruption in even one company.
The Former premier and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif also criticized the former chief justice of supreme court Saqib Nisar and other retired judges about the reasons for disqualifying him. He asked the nation to get answers from the responsible persons who disqualified him from national politics.
Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the former chief justice Saqib Nisar had banned the projects started by the PML-N government.
Speaking at an event on his visit to Railway Crossing Flyover project in Shahdara, the PM said the caretaker government has worked hard on the pending projects that were intentionally stopped in the PTI tenure. The PTI government did not want to complete the projects.
He maintained that Pakistan was moving rapidly towards its prosperous future in the PML-N government from 2013 to 2018 but the rigged election in 2018 brought PTI into power and they stopped the initiatives of the PML-N government.
PM Shehbaz Sharif further said that they know the inflation has made life hard for the people but they initiated the free flour distribution project worth Rs 65 billion which benefited more than 8 to 10 crore people in Punjab. Except for a few unfortunate incidents the process of distribution is going well.
