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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) president Nawaz Sharif, a petitioner in the Memogate scandal, has flayed President Asif Ali Zardari for terming the reopening of cases as a trial of Benazir Bhutto’s grave.
He was speaking to the media outside the Islamabad High Court on Monday after appearing before the three-member commission probing into the scandal.
Responding to a question regarding Swiss accounts and the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict in the NRO case, Sharif said: “Why is the government reluctant to write to Swiss authorities? Linking the embezzlements with Benazir’s grave is not fair. They must answer whose 60 million rupees have been kept in Switzerland banks. This is nation’s wealth which it now wants back.”
He said that Zardari’s recent statement to accept only parliamentary committee’s report in the memo case was a demonstration of no confidence in the judiciary.
The PML-N chief said, “I’m just a complainant in the case. I appeared before the commission to show my respect towards the judiciary.” He further claimed that the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) has done nothing on the issue so far.
After submitting his written statement through his counsel Mustafa Ramday, Sharif said: I have not named Haqqani or Zardari, I have just pleaded for an investigation into the matter.”
The judicial commission, set up to probe the Memogate scandal, is headed by Balochistan High Court (BHC) Chief Justice Justice Qazi Faiz Isa, and it continued its hearing in the Islamabad High Court in the presence of cameras and microphones recording the proceeding officially.
The PML-N chief said that the Memogate scandal was a serious and sensitive issue and was a plot against the country’s integrity. He said that he had not leveled allegations against anyone, and the scandal was a conspiracy to malign Pakistan’s sovereignty.
He also termed the memo a conspiracy against Pakistan and urged the concerned authorities to unmask the culprits behind the scam.
Replying to another query about former President Pervaiz Musharraf’s return to the country, he said: “It is good news.”
The judicial commission continued its probe into the Memogate scandal on Monday, while the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) will meet on Tuesday to continue its own proceedings.
The judicial commission has been given four weeks to complete the probe, while the PCNS has not been given any deadline.
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