ISLAMABAD – PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif has revealed that nobody hasoffered PML N any kind of NRO and neither they are interested in it.
He has rubbished rumours that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is seekingan NRO to secure his release from jail.
“Neither we are seeking an NRO nor anyone is offering it,” Sharif said in acategorical term while speaking to media persons after meeting his elderbrother Nawaz Sharif at Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.Sharif reiterated his stance that elections were rigged before the pollingday and after it.
“Our polling agents were thrown out during the vote count,” he said, addingthat opposition parties had recorded their peaceful protest in this regard.To a question, the former Punjab chief minister said that he was unable tojoin the opposition’s protest in Islamabad due to bad weather.
The PML-N president had drawn a lot of criticism on social media platformsfor failing to lead the lackluster protest held outside the ECPheadquarters yesterday.
“We will all celebrate Independence Day on August 14 but I want to ask canwe celebrate the free and fair elections? The answer is no,” Shahbaz said.The Pakistan Muslim League-N president Shahbaz Sharif demanded on Thursdayformation of a parliamentary commission to probe the alleged rigging in thegeneral election 2018.