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Summary PPPs Babar Awan has hit back at Shahbaz, saying PML-N is using judicial card.
Reacting to Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif’s statement that the PML-N would not tolerate contempt of courts, former federal law minister Babar Awan, known aide of the President, addressed a news conference and came down hard on the PML-N leadership. Awan said the PML-N was trying to create a rift between the provinces and using the judicial card.Awan said the PML-N should keep from projecting itself as defendant of the judiciary. He said videos of PML-N leaders and workers attacking courts were still available in archives.The former law minister questioned the integrity and impartiality of the Supreme Court, saying no suo motto action is taken against corruption by the Punjab government. He said Shahbaz used third-grade language against the President, which would not be tolerated. He advised the PML-N to abstain from “hurling war threats at the PPP as it was in no mood to take all this”.The PPP leader said the next elections would be a nightmare for the PML-N, as “people would hold the corrupt rulers accountable”. Awan also referred to the carpeted roads leading to Raiwind palace of the Sharifs and their lavish lifestyle which he said is self-contradictory to their public statements.
