ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif onTuesday demanded from the army chief and Inter Services Intelligencedirector general to make the evidence public and present them before thecourt, if the opposition members had committed treason.
“Has the army chief seen minutes of the National Security Committeemeeting? Did the establishment sign the minutes of the meeting? The minutesshould also be made public. 197 members of the National Assembly weredeclared traitors” said Shehbaz Sharif in a statement.
He said Prime Minister Imran Khan had sacrificed Pakistan for himself. Heforgot about the national interests, while attacking the European Union, hesaid. “When the government was asked to expel the French ambassador, itsaid that it will ruin the economy,” he said.
While, the PML-N president said, the opposition members did not submit theno-trust motion for themselves, rather they did so for the people. He saidthe motion was submitted in accordance with the desire of 220 millionpeople.
“The deputy speaker breached the constitution. We were declared traitorthrough ruling of the deputy speaker. The country will become a bananarepublic, if no measure is taken upon violation of the constitution,” hesaid adding that early and transparent elections was their demand and theywanted to oust the selected PM through the parliament.
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Shehbaz also claimed that he was only verbally invited to attend the NSCmeeting. Other leaders of the opposition were not invited in the meeting,he maintained. “Am I their slave that I go to the meeting on verbalinvitation?” he wondered.
He claimed that he had not received any letter from the president regardingthe interim government.
Earlier Fazalur Rehman, Asif Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto have also made suchstatements to the Security establishment for rescuing them from thiscrisis.
