LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Malik Ahmad Khan Bhachar says the Sharif brothers are playing on “both sides of the wicket” as one playing pro-establishment and the other anti-establishment.

He said the PML-N had marched on the Supreme Court and now yet again Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attacked the judiciary and called judges as “Black sheep.”

In a statement in response to PML-N President Nawaz Sharif’s speech on Youm-i-Takbeer here on Wednesday, the opposition leader said the elder Sharif yet again started discussing the six-year-old event that he was sent packing on a “false case” by the then chief justice Saqib Nisar.

Besides marching on the Supreme Court, he said, Nawaz Sharif should also remember that in the presence of former Indian premier Vajpayee at Lahore Agreement ceremony he was the one who said that “there should be no borders.”

Mr Bhachar said the Sharif brothers were suffering from “Imran Khan Phobia’, adding that they were holding power in the country and Punjab for the last 35 years and now yet again his brother was prime minister and daughter chief minister Punjab.

Instead of giving relief to masses, the opposition leader said the ‘Form-47 government’ was running the affairs without vision. “Maryam Nawaz will be a big disaster for Punjab as she had already ruined the farmers and exposed her dictatorship mentality through the defamation bill,” he said.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2024

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