Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President and former prime minister Ch Shujaat Hussain has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wanted to send former chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah to jail even this be for one night, his bedroom phones were tapped and the then law minister and prominent lawyer Khalid Anwar advocate was also witness to this.
Ch Shujaat Hussain in his press conference at his residence here on Monday while replying to a question about sacrifice of the rulers said that this would happen even before Eid-ul-Fitr.
He said after the treatment meted out to him in Saudi Arabia, Nawaz Sharif should have resigned, if he was given time for speech in the conference then he at least could address a press conference in his hotel room, he was not stopped by Shah Suleiman or President Trump from doing this.
Shujaat Hussain said that Sharif family particularly two brothers Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif have always been mentally working against the courts which also included immoral activities as well ‘example of which I had given about recording of bedroom phones and tapping of personal conversation of Sajjad Ali Shah which was an immoral act in all respects’.
He said that Nawaz Sharif had got worried on receiving the information that Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had come to know about his bedrooms telephones tapping and after collecting proof he was going to address a press conference. On his asking ‘myself and Khalid Anwar advocate went to the residence of Sajjad Ali Shah to pacify him, he agreed but he showed us recording device placed under the side table of his bed’.
He said that witness to what he was saying was Khalid Anwar advocate who was a highly dependable and respectable personality. He said, ‘If I am proved wrong that no such incident had taken place in presence of Khalid Anwar then I will accept my mistake and every punishment’.
He said on increasing tension over many matters between Nawaz Sharif and Supreme Court, Nawaz Sharif got Supreme Court attacked through Shehbaz Sharif, which was laughing stock all over the world and even today that was considered to be the blackest day of the history of Pakistan. ‘I myself had heard the announcements on Constitution Avenue about serving of meals to the attackers in the Punjab House and tradition of making party-men as the scapegoats was also initiated then which has come to the fore in form on Nehal Hashmi today, then MNAs Mian Munir and Tariq Aziz met the same fate.
Recalling the history, he said that Nawaz Sharif had asked the then NA speaker Gohar Ayub Khan to suggest some way that the chief justice could be sent to jail even for one night only’. On this Gohar Ayub said, ‘For God’s sake do not think such things which will bring the entire system to the ground. But Nawaz Sharif remained adamant and managed the attack on the Supreme Court, he added.
He said that likewise in 1997 Bahawalpur Bench of High Court was attacked saying that Justice Bokhari had not given verdict of Nawaz Sharif’s liking. On this the High Court had convicted MPAs Afzal Gill and Samiullah and disqualified them for five years.
In reply to a question about Hussain Nawaz being in jail, Shujaat Hussain asked which jail he has been in?
In response to another question, he said Imran Khan has a big hand in bringing the rulers in such condition then there were Sirajul Haq, Sheikh Rashid and media.
