PM Shehbaz stresses equal justice for everyone after SC verdict.

ISLAMABAD -- Hitting out at the judiciary for not taking suo motu notices of the many "wrongdoings" of former prime minister Imran Khan's government, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that justice should be equal for everyone.

"I respect judiciary but one has to speak the truth on the floor of the National Assembly," he said while addressing the lower house of the parliament a day after the devastating blow to his government, as the Supreme Court struck down Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari's ruling on the election of Punjab chief minister, paving the way for PTI's selected Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi to ascend to the throne in the country's political heartland.

Shehbaz in today's speech said that people expect the judiciary to make decisions with justice and the 'standard for justice' should be the same for everyone.

Reminding that a former chief justice used to take suo motu on every issue as he wished, Shehbaz said that no one took notice of the many wrongdoings of the PTI government.

"They gave subsidy worth billions of rupees in sugar... they made terrible deals with IMF and then later they did not fulfil their commitments but no one took notice," he lamented.

He questioned why the foreign funding case's verdict is not being announced despite the passage of eight years. "Did anyone take suo motu notice over this," he questioned.

"The ladla (favourite) was provided milk for 15 years and then he was imposed on this nation. The support he got [from institutions] is unprecedented in the country's history... and no one in future is likely to get the same treatment as well."

The premier said that if there is no justice in the country then it cannot move forward and progress. "What I am saying is, if the system works like this then Quaid's soul would remain restless. It will also make the souls of the martyrs of partition restless... did they sacrifice their lives for this," he questioned.

The prime minister said that those who used to taunt us about being the "imported government" when they returned from the United States after meeting the then US president, Donald Trump said that they had brought another World Cup to Pakistan.

Shehbaz said that Russia has refused that it had made any offer to export cheap oil to Pakistan. "We got an offer a day before tomorrow from Russia for purchasing of wheat. We have also made a counter offer."

He said that Imran Khan kept calling them dacoits and robbers day and night but...