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PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari talks to the media outside the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore on Tuesday. DawnNewsTV
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has ruled out talks with the government at least until Imran Khan is holding the office of the prime minister.
“As far as a puppet is working as the prime minister how can dialogue be held (with the government),” he told the media here on Tuesday outside the Kot Lakhpat jail, where he had gone to condole with incarcerated PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif the demise of the latter’s mother.
He said as he could not meet Mr Sharif when he was on parole for the burial of Shamim Begum he decided to visit him in the jail for offering condolence. Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Senator Sherry Rehman and Qamar Zaman Kaira accompanied the PPP chairman.
SC to take up Zardari’s pleas on NAB cases tomorrow
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December 14, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will hear former president and Co-chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari’s petitions regarding transfer of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references against him from accountability court-II Islamabad to an accountability court in Karachi on Tuesday (tomorrow).
A three-member bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi would hear the petitions.
Zardari has moved four separate petitions seeking transfer of four corruption references against him from the Islamabad accountability court to any other accountability court in Karachi.