ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid’s (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain all demanded the prime minister’s resignation on Thursday.
Imran Khan urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign for the duration of an investigation ordered by the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC).
“I demand Nawaz Sharif resign… Until the joint investigation team (JIT) completes its probe,” Khan said. “If you’re cleared within 60 days, you can return,” Khan said.
The PTI chairman congratulated the nation on the “historic” ruling. “This has never happened in the history of Pakistan,” he said. “All five judges have decided that whatever Nawaz Sharif said, it has been rejected. The money trail, the sources of income? everything is in front of the nation… In other words, it has been declared a falsehood,” he said. “The two most senior judges disqualified the PM,” Khan said.
“Nawaz Sharif should hand in his resignation,” Asif Ali Zardari said, while addressing a press conference. “I condemn the [court’s] decision,” he said. “Mian sahab you have failed. You cannot run the government. Give someone else a chance to run the government,” he said.
“Why are they distributing sweets? Because two senior judges said you [PM Nawaz Sharif] should be disqualified? Is this why you are eating sweets?” he asked. “You have deceived the nation,” Zardari said. Sirajul Haq also urged the PM to resign after the SC judgment. “This case is not over yet. It has entered the next stage,” Haq said.
PML-Q’s Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that the PM was morally required to step down.
