ISLAMABAD: The Federal Information Minister, Fawad Chaudhry, said four days have passed since the release of former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif from the jail on a six-week bail by the Supreme Court but he is yet to be hospitalised. In a tweet on Saturday, Fawad asked if getting out of jail was Nawaz Sharif’s sole objective, or he was waiting for the last week to get ill.
“Again my advice is plea bargain – an easy way. The wealth belongs to you, and not to Hassan and Hussain. This nation has honoured you by electing you as PM thrice. Return their money to them,” he tweeted.
In another tweet, he said the kind of coordination and cooperation among various institutions and their heads was unprecedented and Pakistan was treading on a path, which would lead it only to prosperity and stability.
The minister contended that they understood it well that this objective could only be achieved collectively. Criticising the PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah, the minister charged that he had run short of sleeping pills since the day Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Sindh. In a series of tweets, the minister wrote that the black deeds of ‘Shah Jee’ were in the court of people of Sindh and now he was on shaky legs. He said time was not far away when like other parts of Pakistan, the people of Sindh would also get rid of coercion and exploitation and the ‘dakoo raj’ would be over.
In another tweet, he said the funds meant for Sindh were used in Dubai and London and billions of rupees were sent abroad through fake accounts, models and front men. “This was the wealth of Sindhi people,” he said. The minister said the PPP leaders even looted the name of Benazir Bhutto and ZA Bhutto.
On reports of possible increase in the prices of petroleum products, the minister wrote that the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority had recommended Rs11 increase in price of diesel and Rs6 in the price of kerosene, while the government was already giving a relief of over Rs70 billion in tax and the final decision on these recommendations would be made keeping in view the interest of the masses.
