MULTAN: Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Javed Hashmi has advised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign and allow someone else to take his position in light of the Joint Investigation Team’s (JIT) report.
While addressing a press conference in Multan, Hashmi suggested that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan or Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal could take charge of the PM Office.
“Nawaz Sharif never wanted to give me an election ticket,” he added. He said that politicians have always been accused of corruption in this country, while military generals left Pakistan after retirement and did not present themselves for accountability. He gave the example of ex-President General (r) Pervez Musharraf saying he escaped accountability.
To a question about who will emerge victorious in the 2018 general elections, he said it could either be PTI Chairman Imran Khan or ex-President Asif Ali Zardari. He recalled Imran Khan telling him that the successor of Chief Justice Tassaduq Gilani would dissolve the assemblies, to which he responded that it would be tantamount to a judicial martial law.
Hashmi argued that he could have stayed in PTI and made a progressive bloc but decided against it since it could have damaged the party. Awami League leader Sheikh Rasheed used to please Nawaz Sharif and is now doing the same with Imran Khan, claimed the former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N). He also said,“out of all the politicians and distinguished names, no one is honest.”
“Maryam Nawaz’s appearance before the JIT is no big deal as my wife presented herself as well when false cases were registered against me, even though she had no relation to politics,” he stated.
He complained that democracy has only been allowed to function for ten years in the country since only politicians are held accountable. He also wondered why a Supreme Court judge with offshore properties has not been held accountable till now.
