Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Senator Pervaiz Rashid said on Tuesday that a baseless propaganda of seeking disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif would die itself.
He said superior courts had rejected allegations of loan default and tax evasion against Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif. "Even financial institutions such as State Bank of Pakistan, FBR and NAB have failed to conceal facts on the basis of their record. Instead, they had to announce that all the business dealings of the two brothers are clean of any wrongdoing," the PML-N Senator said.
He said reports published in English and Urdu dailies of a group had been prepared from the material compiled by the PPP during the era of political confrontation, adding, "Pervez Musharraf also inherited the same pack of lies."
Pervaiz Rashid said services rendered by the Sharifs to strengthen Pakistan's economy could not be ignored, adding the record vindicated that the Sharif family faced no such allegations before Nawaz Sharif entered the politics. "The PPP government nationalised Ittefaq Foundries in 1971 in revenge for the Sharifs' supporting the son of Allama Iqbal in elections," he said. The PPP, the Senator added, continued victimising the Sharifs in its second and third tenure as well. He said Musharraf also did the similar harm to Nawaz Sharif and his family. "All the baseless allegations against the Sharif family have been levelled by the person who has been proved a criminal before law," the PML-N leader said.
With elections on the corner, the opponents of the PML-N had resorted to such accusations, he said. He also quoted the Lahore High Court's verdict of 2002, which says, "The undisputed fact, however, remains that the two companies ie the principal debtor, have placed all the assets and properties at the disposal of the court at the initiative of the creditor banks. The banks themselves want to realise their dues by the disposal of the properties of the two companies, which has already been accepted by the said companies. It is, therefore, a case in which the creditor has taken over the assets and properties of the principal debtor." He said Sharif family was itself eager to hear the verdict reserved on December 3, 2012. "The fact that the family itself moved the court suggests it is not afraid of any baseless case against it," the senator said, adding, "Those who have resorted to allegations are now bound to explain whether they respect the law of land or not."