LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday said that the federal government should “concentrate” on providing doctors and paramedical staff with personal protective equipment (PPE), instead of “slinging mud” on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and party president Shahbaz Sharif.
In a statement issued here, Aurangzeb said: “Doctors and paramedical staff need to be provided protection due to the rapidly increasing cases in the country. Their lives are on the line yet the government is busy focusing on Nawaz, Shehbaz and the media.”
The statement came two days after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) made public its inquiry report into the recent wheat and sugar crises which witnessed a sharp surge in the prices of said commodities. The report, in addition to ruling bigwigs, named Shahbaz’s son Salman Shahbaz and Maryam Nawaz’s daughter’s father-in-law Chaudhry Munir as the beneficiaries of the artificial crisis.
The report, which was initially shared with Prime Minister Imran Khan, was made public on premier’s special directives despite the mention of his confidante Jahangir Khan Tareen.
Yesterday, while responding to the report, Shahbaz demanded strict accountability against “those involved in manufacturing crises”.
In a statement, he said that the inquiry report is a “conviction against Prime Minister Imran and [Punjab] Chief Minister Usman Buzdar”.
He said that he was waiting “patiently” how to see how the premier would act against those mentioned in the report, without mentioning his son and Munir.
Yesterday, the prime minister said that he was waiting for the detailed forensic reports, slated to come out on April 25, before taking any action against those responsible.
In a series of tweets, he said: “After these reports come out no powerful lobby will be able to profiteer at the expense of our public,”, adding that the initial reports into sudden price hikes of sugar and wheat have been released immediately without and “alteration or tampering”.
