Iqama only an excuse, real target was Nawaz Sharif: Maryam Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, said on Friday that the decision in the disqualification reference against Imran Khan proved that iqama was only an excuse and the actual target was Nawaz.

Maryam took to Twitter to express her views after the Supreme Court disqualified PTI Secretary General Jahangir Tareen but ruled in favour of Chairperson Imran Khan in its judgment on the disqualification case against the two party leaders.

She in her tweets said the underlying vengeance has been revealed.

“Today’s decision authenticated the notion that injustice has been done to Nawaz Sharif,” said Maryam.

She went on to say that today it left no margin of doubt that the only target of any conspiracy, sit-in, accountability is Nawaz because he is the representative of the people.

Why did the judges feel the need to give justification, she asked.

The Supreme Court on Friday disqualified PTI Secretary General Jahangir Tareen but ruled in favour of PTI Chairperson Imran Khan in its judgment on the disqualification case against the two party leaders.

The three-member bench had reserved the verdict in the disqualification petition against the two PTI leaders on November 14. 

The judgment states that Imran wasn't bound to declare his offshore company, declared his London flat in an amnesty scheme and that his former wife Jemima gave Imran the funds for buying the Bani Gala estate.

The apex court disqualified Tareen under Article 62(1)(f) because of his blatant misstatement regarding the ownership of the Hyde House property and failure to declare it in his nomination papers.