ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday said if constitutional institutes would interfere in elections then country would continue to face inflation and other troubles.
He said this while referring to former chief justice Gilgit-Baltistan Rana M Shamim’s claim in a notarised affidavit that ex-top judge of Pakistan Saqib Nisar had directed not to grant bail to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz until general elections of 2018.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said if the senior most judge of the country would halt the bail then it was obvious that how the judge Muhammed Bashir would take decision in the case. He said Muhammed Bashir was for the first time in Pakistan’s history appointed as a monitoring judge by the Supreme Court in the case in which Nawaz Sharif was disqualified on the basis of Iqama.
The veteran PML-N leader hoped that the apex court would take a suo moto notice on the statement of former top judge of GB.
On July 17, he said, Saqib Nisar had gone to GB when verdict of Nawaz Sharif’s case was to be announced. He said the truth was known to only three people Saqib Nisar, Rana Shamim and Islamabad High Court Justice Aamer Farooq.
Quoting Rana Shamim he said, through his registrar Saqib Nisar had conveyed the message to Justice Aamer Farooq that Nawaz and Maryam’s bail should not be granted before the elections.
Abbasi said supremo of his party was deliberately separated from politics through the court verdict.