Islamabad (July 11, 2017): The Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto reiterated his stance that following the Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report , that revealed huge disparities in Sharif family assets and means of income, therefore Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has lost moral grounds to maintain his slot.
According to the details, PPP Chairman Bilwal Bhutto-Zardari lent his support to the rising chorus of demands for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation following the revelations made in the report submitted by the Panamagate joint investigation team (JIT) to the Supreme Court on Monday.
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Bilawal, who was addressing a press conference in Islamabad following a high-level huddle of party leaders, also suggested that a case should be filed against the premier. He further said that the prime minister had lost all ethical and legal grounds to retain the premiership.
“Nawaz Sharif is indulged in money laundering and now has to step down without wasting time,” Bilawal Bhutto said while talking to media after the party bigwigs press conference.
Bilawal said that JIT report has disclosed all reality regarding Sharif family wealth and corruption and they should have stop to threat JIT and apex court. He alleged that Sharif family has misled the apex court as well.
Delivering clear message for PML-N, Bilawal said “Stop threatening JIT and apex court.”
He continued “We will make future course of action by joining hands with other opposition parties.”
“They [the Sharif family] used to say that we’re presenting accounts for the last three generations for scrutiny — what we have found instead is that the report has exposed all three generations of the first family as thieves,” he remarked at one point.
“The rule of law should be equal for all. It shouldn’t be that if a reference is filed against a politician from Sindh, his name is immediately placed on the exit control list, but the rules keep changing for the people of Punjab,” he observed.
To a question of whether the PPP may launch a grassroots agitation movement, the PPP chairman said that his party was devising its future course of action and “all options are being considered”.
Bilawal said he had also directed Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah to contact all opposition parties and devise a joint strategy on the issue.
Recalling his party’s victories in by-elections on Sunday, Bilawal expressed confidence that the PPP would sweep the next general elections, “whenever they are held”.
Earlier, the top officials of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) drafted a strategy to give Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tough time and mounting pressure on him for stepping down.
Meeting of party heads held in Islamabad and presided over by party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and they mulled over the strategy to mounting pressure on PM for his resignation after the Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report that revealed huge disparities in Sharif family assets.
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