LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif
Monday demanded the government to write the letter required by the
Supreme Court (SC) to address Swiss authorities so that the people’s
money could be brought back from Swiss banks.
Addressing a press
conference along with Sindh National Front (SNF) Chief Mumtaz Bhutto,
he said ‘what is immunity’ does not concern the common people, adding
the common man wants his hard-earned money should be retrieved back into
the country.
The PML-N leader wondered as to why Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani is shirking to write the letter.
He said present government made the country a fun in the world by not obeying Supreme Court orders.
Nawaz
said there was no logic in Peoples Party remarks to scarify their Prime
Minister added that they could not be called as martyrs in matter of
corruption.
Former Prime Minster said that he was stand with his
stance over Memogate scandal and demanded the government not to make
hurdles in investigation process.
He said all parties decided in
London APC not to take part in 2008 general election but peoples Party
violated the declaration of the conference.
He said if his party
would had boycotted the election, NRO would have been passed in the
Parliament and Judiciary would not have been freed.
The Sindhi
nationalist leader Bhutto noted the circumstances are fast going out of
control with poverty-stricken people coerced to sell off their kids,
adding the politicians will have to sit together to steer the country
out of these crises.
No fair and transparent elections, Mumtaz
Bhutto stressed, could be expected if the present rulers stick to the
helm of affairs.
The two leaders voiced consensus that the
government should immediately write the letter to Swiss authorities to
open graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. Online
