As the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is expecting a decision by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case next week, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz hawks have stopped the chorus of blaming elements in the military establishment and judiciary for hatching conspiracies to oust Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The PML-N leaders have now completely shifted their focus from the ‘establishment and judiciary’ to the Joint Investigation Team that probed the money laundering allegations against the Sharif family and submitted its report to the apex court.
“Our message of conspiracy has already been conveyed to the people and our workers. Now we are only focusing on further discrediting the JIT and challenging its report in the court
The PML-N leader gave two reasons for changing the focus — the Supreme Court’s notice of speeches by Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, MNA Talal Chaudhry and PM’s special assistant Asif Kirmani, which had the content indicating the involvement of the establishment and judiciary in conspiracies to send Nawaz Sharif packing, and the prime minister’s directives in this regard.
