Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. — File Photo

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that if US businessman Mansoor Ijaz had come to Pakistan, something or the other must have come to light against the federal government, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to media representatives outside the Punjab Assembly, Sanaullah said that Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz's chief Nawaz Sharif had filed the petition so that facts of the memo issue could be ascertained.

Regarding Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan’s petition in which he has accused the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of bribing politicians, the provincial minister said that the PML-N had clean hands and would accept whatever verdict the court would arrive at.

On the subject of voters’ lists, Sanaullah said that in the year 2011 the election commission had stated that the lists were complete but now the commission had changed its stance on the issue.

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