Pakistan's Judiciary is biased against PPP

Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Saturday lashed out at judiciary and alleged that it was biased against the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Speaking to reporters, Sharjeel said, "Since three years, a PPP leader is lying in a jail and they are neither giving him bail nor sentencing him. If you [judiciary] think he is guilty, then punish him." The minister also mentioned the Arsalan-Riaz saga which involved the chief justice's son and said, "The biggest thief Arsalan Chaudhry is roaming out free and no one can arrest him. You have issued a stay order on his case. Is that not biased?" Memon also criticised the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and said, "The PML-N has started doing dramas." "Look at the recent example of how Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa and his son left the party and came back," he added. He pointed out that in the recent by-elections in Multan, the PPP candidate emerged as victorious in spite of the joint opposition from the PML-N, the Jamaat-e-Islami, and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The minister also said that the day former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was sent home, the PPP candidate won by-election on a seat in Punjab.