LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Friday that the Supreme Court had been lenient with absconding former SSP Rao Anwar, yet it had not extended the same relief to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s family.

Talking to reporters here, the minister said: “Rao Anwar was given relief despite being an absconder...even today the court waited for him to appear before it. In the case of Nawaz Sharif, who has appeared in courts in various cases against him, the court did not accord him relief to go see his ailing wife in London,” he said, adding that Mr Sharif’s only crime had been to make Pakistan invincible.

Published in Dawn, February 17th, 2018