Govt urges judiciary to hear Shehbaz Sharif's cases on a day-to-day basis.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Tuesday urged the judiciary to hear Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif's case on a day-to-day basis.

Addressing a press briefing after the federal cabinet meeting here, the minister said the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has sent four questions to the PML-N leader Shehbaz Sharif to answer Rs 25 billion money laundering he committed from two sugar mills. He said the entire nation is looking at the matter of accountability as if it is some kind of a joke. "The schedule for hearing of cases isn't issued despite the passage of up to six months," he said. "I have an earnest request to the judiciary to hear such cases on day-to-day basis as the public wants result," he added.

Fawad said the role of PML-N is akin to the East India Company, which had extracted the money from the Indian Sub-continent and then transferred the same to the United Kingdom. He said the PML-N is in fact the 'Modern East India Company', which is repeating the same tactics of stashing away the money looted from the country. "The only difference between the PML-N and the East India Company was that the former was local and the latter is original foreigner," he added.

Fawad said those who used to play local games in Gawalmandi are now watching polo games in London. "Any person who has understanding of the polo games, knows that how much expensive it is to have a 'polo-poly' in London," he said. "It is a despicable act," he said, while recalling the requests made by the PML-N leadership for leaving the country on medical grounds. He said the properties of the PML-N leadership are in London and there is a need to evaluate the taxes being paid by them in Pakistan and the UK.

Fawad said the cabinet discussed the ongoing budget session of the parliament and viewed that the government wants a thorough debate on the budget and would listen to the constructive criticism. "But, criticism and insult are two different things," he said, adding that the opposition under the garb of criticism is trying to insult, which is not acceptable in any case. He said an...