There is no case of corruption against Prime Minister :Maryam Orangzeb

Lahore : The Panama case being heard by the Supreme Court was not about corruption but about lust for power.

This was stated by Minister of State for Information,Broadcasting and National Heritage Maryam Orangzeb, while sharing her thoughts with the media outside Supreme Court here Thursday.

She said that not a single case of misuse of power and corruption had ever been reported, or unearthed against Nawaz Sharif during his three stints as the Prime Minister and two tenures as Chief Minister of Punjab, a fact that was corroborated  by the apex court itself also.

The minister said that Imran Khan in his petition had accused Prime Minister of money laundering, stealing public  money and concealing his assets and he had been trying to use this case as crutches to revive his political fortunes and gaining access to the corridors of power, which amply reflected his  malafide intentions.

She said that while Imran had filed a case against the Prime Minister in the Supreme Court, he himself was running away from the cases against him in the courts and ECP  because he knew that he was guilty of money laundering— that he used to set up Niazi Service— and receiving funds from the Hindu  and Israeli lobbies.

Maryam pointed out that he was also a proclaimed offender from the Anti-Terrorist Court, where he was wanted in the case involving attack on the Parliament and PTV.

She said that for the last four years Imran had been persistently telling lies and hurling allegations against the PML (N) government and trying to mislead and befool the nation through a falsified propaganda and there had been no change in his narrative.

It had almost become a daily ritual for him  every evening to hurl slurs and to denigrate the PML (N) government, the Prime Minister and his family, she added.

Lamenting the loose-cannon behavior of the PTI Chief  and expressing  pity on his mental condition, she said that  his obsession with power had blurred all his mental faculties  to perceive things in their proper perspective.

She advised Imran to unlock the Ehtsab Commission in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and put that lock on his own wagging tongue.

The minister said that while Imran was fighting  a case for grabbing power, the Prime Minister was fighting a case for  the supremacy of law and constitution, trust of people repeatedly reposed in him, economic progress and prosperity of the country, CPEC and above all the elimination of the scourge of terrorism.

She assured the people that the Prime would fight for the protection of their mandate at all forums and would never  betray their trust.

She said that the Prime Minister presented  himself and his family for accountability to uphold the sanctity of  the law and the constitution adding that only the people with  clean hands presented themselves for accountability.

Maryam expressed the hope and confidence that the Prime Minister would emerge unscathed from the Panama case as the  Supreme Court would exonerate him from all the allegations and his detractors  would be forced to wind up the fancy street (Meena Bazar) that they had established in the country for the last four years.

The minister said that the people of Pakistan had seen through the  game and would support the right against the wrong by rejecting the  group of carpet-bagger led by Imran Khan, which was bent upon  disrupting the sojourn of peace, progress and tranquility.

The minister said that the reservations expressed against the JIT by the Sharif family from day one still persisted due to the manner  in which it had conducted the probe.

She said that all the documents presented by the Sharif family  in the court were duly attested, notarized and verified by the relevant  authorities. She reiterated that the Sharif family had every right to rebut and challenge the authenticity of the documents produced by a detective relative of a member of the JIT.