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Despite redtapism Nawaz will leave for UK this week

ISLAMABAD: While addressing a public gathering during his USA visit Imran Khan said that he would order taking the Air Conditioner out of incarcerated deposed PM Nawaz Sharif. 

Moreover, he had said umpteenth times that he would not give NRO to any politician. And he had also rejected the Maulana by saying that for the first time assembly was operating sans diesel. 

But, now either it is because of the deal with PML-N or the genuine concern that without adequate medical facilities Nawaz will not survive, that he has been allowed to leave (following bail granted by the court) the country and get treatment abroad (London).

The Court, while granting bail for 8 weeks on medical grounds asked NAB to take responsibility that he would be alright in prisons if his request for bail was rejected.

Similarly, present impasse is due to the fact that the buck is being passed from Interior Ministry to NAB and vice versa as nobody wants to take the risk. The Tabdeelee Khan has reportedly said that he was willing to accept all the demands of the Azadi Marchers led by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman except the one about his resignation.

While his ticket to London had been booked, Sharif cant leave Pakistan as his name has yet not been taken out of ECL. Similarly his daughter’s passport had been surrendered to the govt on the orders of the court that had accepted her bail application on humanitarian grounds (to take care of her ailing father).

Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid who held that PPML-N and PPP-P had taken advantage of the Azadi March Dharna (Sit-in)  orchestrated by Maulana-Fazl-ur-Rehman stated: The government has dealt with Nawaz Sharif’s case on humanitarian grounds keeping in view his deteriorating health.

“I wholeheartedly pray for his health and whatsoever Imran Khan has done to allow him to go abroad for medical treatment it is the need of the hour.” He also said that Co-Chairman PPP-P Asif Ali Zardari would also be released soon due to ongoing plea bargain. 

Savants at the helm of affairs are of the view that deals have been struck and both Nawaz and Zardari would soon be going out of jail. As far as the Maulana is concerned cynics go haywire noticing when FBR is prowling like a mad dog fleecing even the lower middle class, nobody has been asked who is paying for such a big circus called Azadi March.

Even feeding a thousand souls,  transportation and catering to their other needs is not a small affair, left alone paying for the 25,000 or 50,000 or more people. What is the real agenda and who is pulling the strings is yet to be seen. If Maulana is doing it on his own then it must be one of the miracles in the history of today’s politics.

News Pakistan

 

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.