Javed Hashmi announces to expose PML-N leaders

In a bid to level the field for the upcoming elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has announced that he would expose the leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Talking to the media, he said that it was the Sharif family which had escaped to Saudi Arabia after signing a deal with former military ruler General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf. “At difficult times, it was I along with my son and daughter who faced imprisonment and difficulties”. Hashmi, who was a senior leader of the PML-N until he joined hands with PTI chief Imran Khan, said that eight leaders of the PML-N had adopted the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) introduced by Musharraf. The PTI President said that senior PML-N leader Khawaja Mohammad Asif went to Dubai after the military coup and started working in a bank. Another close aide of the Sharif brothers, Ahsan Iqbal also went to Dubai. He reiterated that he would start exposing the wrongdoings of PML-N leaders, adding that his revelations would force them to leave Lahore. Hashmi said that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif could only stage a “topi drama” by setting up camps, but could not resolve issues in reality. He observed, “The process of change had started and that the PTI was not afraid of threats from the PML-N, and would confront it squarely. It is giving a new color to politics, and asked the leaders of other political parties to follow suit and declare their assets”. Earlier, Hashmi dared Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to face him and alleged it was he (Nisar) who pit Gen Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif against each other and paved the way for martial law in 1999. He noted, “Chaudhry Nisar is responsible for the imposition of martial law in the past and he was also against the nuclear tests”. Reiterating his stance, he questioned why doesn’t Nawaz Sharif take the writer, who accused him of corruption, to court? The PTI President was of the opinion that Nawaz Sharif was enveloped by members who had left the party in difficult times and are now acting as party’s front-men.