PML-N keeps ridiculing Supreme Court's verdict: Fawad Chaudhry

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Fawad Chaudhry lashed out at former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and said the way the PML-N have ridiculed the Supreme Court's verdict is unprecedented in country's history.

Chaudhry was addressing a press conference in Lahore on Tuesday. 

Referring to Supreme Court's verdict in which Nawaz Sharif was disqualified as the country's prime minister, he said that the Nawaz keeps asking why was he was disqualified as he failed to prove his innocence during the 134-day hearing of the SC and additional 60-day probe of the Joint Investigation Team, which was formed to probe former PM's assets. 

On Nawaz's appearance before the accountability court on Tuesday, Chaudhry said that government spent millions of rupees for a five-minute appearance of the former premier. 

He also criticised Nawaz's manner of reaching the accountability court as he was surrounded by an escort of 45 cars. 

Fawad claimed that Nawaz has not returned to the country for accountability but to save his seat. “How can we expect these people to bring about change?”

Chaudhry alleged that PML-N leaders are employing delaying tactics to escape punishment. 

"Sometimes Nawaz Sharif is not present in the country, sometimes his children are not. These are ways to waste the court's time."

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Around 1,500 security personnel were deployed to secure the route from Punjab House to Sector G-11, where the court is located, as well as the courts complex

He also demanded that the apex court should look into the behaviour and speeches of PML-N leaders and take an action against it. 

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will be indicted by the accountability court tomorrow [Wednesday]. "But, he has no shame as he did not leave his portfolio as yet," he added.