LAHORE: PML-N leader Tallal Chaudhry has urged the chief justice of Pakistan to take notice of the video of the accountability judge who confessed to have given verdict against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif “under pressure”.

Talking to reporters here on Monday, Mr Chaudhry said the PML-N wanted justice to be done after the “revelations” in the purported video.

He said Rana Sanaullah’s was a “fit case for suo motu” to be taken up by the Supreme Court. If the government was keen to recover narcotics, it should better raid Banigala [private residence of PM Imran Khan].

He said the Imran’s government was so weak that it was afraid of a “girl (Maryam Nawaz)” and arrested an eighty-year-old man (Irfan Siddiqui) on a frivolous charge.

He said the government made the media black out coverage of the opposition.

“I asked selected prime minister Imran Khan to be brave and face the opposition. We will not step back from exposing the real face of the puppet prime minister before the masses,” he declared and asked the PTI spokespersons to stop using ‘foul language’ against the PML-N leadership.

PML-N Punjab information secretary Azma Bokhari said the PTI was using “bad language” against the opposition leadership, adding the ministers had become spokespersons for the National Accountability Bureau and predicting arrests of the opposition leaders.

“Like Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, the Punjab Assembly is also being run on dictation,” she alleged.

Ms Bokhari said Jehangir Tareen had become active to save Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2019