LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz information secretary Mushahidullah Khan says former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will soon embark upon a countrywide mass-contact campaign to take the people on board on the reasons behind successive attempts on his government.

Talking to Dawn after a consultative meeting of the party held in Islamabad, he said some people had suggested Mr Sharif to begin the drive at once but some mature souls advised against it so that no “negative impression” could be derived from it.

Referring to the Supreme Court verdict in the Panama case, he termed it a “defaced” form of the repealed constitutional Article 58-2(B) that had been used in the past to sent packing multiple prime ministers.

Now, he said, coming prime ministers would feel it hard to rule the country knowing that they could be ousted on any “frivolous” charge.

He said a decision to bring replacement for Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Punjab after he is promoted as the prime minister as per party decision would be taken only after setting the central government issue as Punjab comes on second priority.

Meanwhile, Tehrik-i-Istiqlal president Rehmat Khan Wardag says the penalty of disqualification for life was astonishing for legal experts in a charge involving concealment of assets worth a couple of hundreds of thousands.

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2017