LAHORE: Sharply reacting to the arrest of former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Memon, the Pakistan Peoples Party says it has exposed discriminatory treatment being meted out to people from various parties.

“Sharjeel Memon’s detention has exposed the (difference between) vengeance and catwalk accountability,” party’s central information secretary Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmad said here on Monday, apparently referring to Maryam Nawaz’s joining of various accountability court hearings in Islamabad.

“The PPP is a victim of vengeance in the name of accountability for the last three decades,” Mr Ahmad bemoaned referring to the way Mr Memon was taken into custody from the Sindh High Court by a team of the Rangers.

He said that the PML-N leaders were being given VIP treatment “as Maryam Nawaz would reach the accountability court (in a security cover) like a queen” despite being wanted in corruption cases worth hundreds of billions of rupees.

He recalled that an accountability court had accepted bail plea of ousted prime minister’s son-in-law retired Capt Safdar though, the PPP leader claimed, the court didn’t have the powers to do so, while Mr Memon is arrested despite volunteering to cooperate in cases against him.

Published in Dawn, October 24th, 2017

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