Asks CJP to not ‘threaten’ party with disqualification
Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that the judiciary has only ever disqualified elected prime ministers, and never military dictators.
Addressing a judicial convention in Rawalpindi a day after the Supreme Court announced its verdict in the Punjab polls delay case, the PML-N scion stated that no court “dared” to stand up against dictators and had their heads bent in front of power. She said “courts kept throwing out politicians, but never brought a dictator to the courtroom”.
“The judiciary validated dictators while ousting or threatening elected prime ministers,” she said, narrating a case told by Nawaz Sharif when a judge messaged him while he was premier and told him to do his bidding or go to Adiala.
She said it has always been those disqualified prime ministers and people who have pushed dictators out, the judiciary, on the other hand, has “never stopped dictators, only stopped democracy”.
