Imran Khan asks Sharif, family to face independent judiciary

Bhimber: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week asked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his other family members, residing in the United Kingdom, to return home and face trials to prove their honesty as judiciary in the country was fully independent.

“Judiciary in the country is fully independent as Imran Khan did not attack courts or contact judges for seeking favourable judgments. I ask them a question– why are they sitting outside the country if they are honest and truthful, why they fear facing courts?” the prime minister said while addressing two separate public gatherings held in connection with Azad Jammu and Kashmir upcoming general elections on 25th July.
The prime minister said even Ishaq Dar, former finance minister, his son, Nawaz’s sons, son and son in law of Shahbaz Sharif had been absconding in London to avoid accountability.

He said due to independent judiciary and accountability process, even PTI’s ministers were not spared. The courts and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) were free and not under any control, he added.
“If these leaders are honest, then why they fear from the justice system,” the prime minister said.
He said Nawaz Sharif performed such an acting never staged in Bollywood. “His acting even moved female members in our cabinet who wept upon his health conditions,” he added.

The prime minister expressing his wonder said but, after arriving in London, it was a different Nawaz Sharif.
“If they did no wrong, then why they have been fleeing?” the prime minister asked the gathering to pose question on polling day to voters of these parties who had plundered the country in the last thirty years.
He further added such corrupt leadership left the country because they realized that Imran Khan was not giving them any NRO.
The prime minister said that he did not leave the country when politically motivated cases against him were taken up by the Supreme Court.

He faced the trial and submitted each and every evidence because he did not commit any wrong, he said.
He observed that almost all the poor countries had rulers like Zardari and Nawaz who had been siphoning off their national wealth and sending it abroad.
In those countries, the prime minister maintained, there was rule of power swayed by the corrupt leadership and corrupt members of parliament.
The prime minister further observed that countries did not become poor due to lack of resources but due to lack of rule of law.

When the rulers considered themselves above the law and roamed the world with NROs, then the countries were ruined, he said, adding “To bring the powerful dacoits under the rule of law, is the real fight for Pakistan and Kashmir. We have to enforce rule of law and rid the poor from the clutches of injustices.”
The prime minister asked the people to differentiate between the honest and truthful leadership and the others on July 25.
He said that he was very concerned about the future of the young generations of the country and wanted the country to become the great one in the world.

“I want to make a great nation, so that its green passport should have the respect all over the world,” he added.
He said the Holy Prophet (PBUH) had lifted the poor and helpless Arabs who had been lying low, with no respect in the world to rise and lead the world in the presence of two powerful empires of that time. After migration to Madina, those two empires crumbled and defeated, he added.

The prime minister said by following the Holy Prophet’s sunnah, they would achieve success and become a great nation.
Unfortunately, he said, in the past, they moved on the wrong path, roaming with begging bowls, seeking loans and participating in others’ wars. This led to lowering of respect. “No one respects beggars and loan seekers. Even close relatives did not tolerate it,” he added.

The prime minister further said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was an honest and upright leader whose qualities were acknowledged even by his political adversaries.
He stressed upon the people that they had to change themselves and the country to become a great nation by becoming truthful and honest.

He said there should be no two set of laws for the poor and the powerful NRO mafia.
Citing a saying of Maulana Rumi, the prime minister said that a nation rose to prominence when it discerned between the good and the bad.