ISLAMABAD, May 22: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif have rejected the capital police’s directives to appear for questioning in connection with the storming of the Supreme Court in 1997, sources told Dawn on Tuesday.

The Sharif brothers also asked police to produce the evidence against them before summoning them for interrogation, the sources said.

After their refusal to appear before the police, the two PML-N leaders were asked to either come to the Punjab House or an officer of the capital police would visit them in Lahore for interrogation and to record their statements, the sources said.

However, the PML-N leaders refused to entertain this order too.

Through their legal adviser, the Sharifs asked police to provide any evidence they might have to examine it and to respond accordingly, the sources said.

PML-N spokesman Pervez Rasheed confirmed that police directive to Sharif brothers to appear before the SSP had been turned down.

He claimed that the government and interior minister Rehman Malik had started victimising the Sharif brothers and were sending such notices for the purpose.

“We believe that it is not necessary to respond to `the government’s illegal action’,” Mr Rasheed said.