The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed a petitioner to extend his arguments on the maintainability of a petition seeking disqualification of and high treason proceedings against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his son MNA Hamza Shahbaz for being responsible for the deaths of cardiac patients due to supply of spurious medicines.
Justice Umar Ata Bandial issued the order on a petition field by advocate Fakhar Razzaq through his counsel Sardar Khurram Latif Khosa.
As proceedings started on Wednesday, Justice Bandial asked the petitioner’s counsel to convince the court whether the instant petition was maintainable and adjourned hearing for three weeks. He pleaded that Shahbaz Sharif had not proved himself a trustworthy (Ameen) according to the Article 62 of the Constitution. It was the hard luck of the province that the chief minister had appointed himself as a minister for Health, despite the facts he had no adequate knowledge of the department. He submitted that Shahbaz Sharif was playing with the lives of the masses at large and it had resulted into the death of a huge number of people due to dengue and drugs reaction.
Khurram Khosa alleged that MNA Hamza Shahbaz was the supervisor of a pharmaceutical company that supplied a defective 75mg tablet – named Alfagirl (Clopidogirl) – to the PIC.
The petitioner requested the court to disqualify Shahbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz Sharif from being elected and restrain Shahbaz from holding the office of Punjab chief minister.
He also requested the LHC to declare all the respondents as guilty of the ‘clinical murderer’ of cardiac patients, some of whom had lost their lives while others were still at risk due to the use of low standard drugs. He contended the respondents should also be charged with the offence of high treason according to the Article 6 of the constitution by placing their names on the exit control list (ECL).
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