LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Chaudhry Manzoor claimed thatformer prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been given the NRO (nationalreconciliation ordinance) in the cases he is facing, media reports statedon Saturday.
He said Sharif had got the relief he was seeking. He claimed to havereceived this information from an official privy to the development.
“Nawaz Sharif will fly out of the country by February,” he stated. He wenton to claim that the former PM’s daughter and Sharif himself would remainsilent on the issue.
While responding to the claim, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader AliMuhammad Khan said no one could ‘hijack’ the judiciary in the name of NRO.The Supreme Court and the Sindh High Court will not let NRO take place, headded.
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“How could Imran Khan backtrack on his vision by giving the NRO. It won’thappen”, he added.
Opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shehbaz, three weeks ago,said the government was giving a wrong impression that opposition waslooking for an ‘NRO’.