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LAHORE, Dec 17: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have formed a joint committee to look into the possibility of seat-to-seat adjustment as far as election in Lahore is concerned.
Former Punjab chief minister and PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif said this while talking to media here on Monday.
Terming the PML-Q a dead political party, he said it could never be contacted for any kind of negotiations.
“The PML-N can never accept those politicians, who damaged the interest of the party,” he added.
Mr Sharif said it was a matter of concern that flour was not available even at Rs25 per Kg during the tenure of a government, which was boosting of amassing foreign reserves.
The PML-N, he said, would contest the elections for shaping Pakistan in accordance with the Quaid-i-Azam’s principles, which would be free of hunger, poverty and joblessness.
BAIL CHALLENGED: The Lahore High Court has been moved for the cancellation of bail granted to former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif in the Sabzazar shootout case.
Saeedud Din, the complainant in Sabzazar shootout case, through his counsel Aftab Ahmad Bajwa said the anti-terrorism court could not have granted bail to the accused because police had found him guilty of ordering a fake encounter.
He said former chief minister had announced that he would appear in the court soon after arriving in the country but he did not and remained busy electioneering until his arrest warrants were issued again.
He pleaded that Shahbaz Sharif did not deserve the concession of bail because he delayed his appearance.
Sharif, after issuance of his arrest warrants, had written to the court that his exile frustrated his desire to appear before the court.
The ATC, on Dec 6, had granted Mr Shahbaz an interim bail and later confirmed it, directing the accused to join police investigations.
The complainant had alleged that his son Salah-ud-Din and four others — Wakeel, Waseem, Haider and Abdur Rauf — had been killed in a fake police encounter on the order of Shahbaz Sharif, the then chief minister of Punjab.
Bajwa said the arrest order issues by the court was still valid and needed to be fulfilled in letter and spirit.
Shahbaz’s counsel Khwaja Haris had pleaded before the ATC that the police did not declare Shahbaz guilty and had found him innocent.
