Former Prime Minister and senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi accused President Arif Alvi on Tuesday of refusing to accept the supremacy of parliament.
Speaking to reporters outside an accountability court in Islamabad, Khaqan Abbasi said it was difficult to understand what flaw he found in the National Accountability Bureau-related bill passed by parliament and sent to him for signatures. “How will the system function if the president acts like a member of a political party?” he wondered.
Abbasi said mockingly that if the former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had received any threats, the government would take appropriate action. “Conspiracies were hatched against him in the past as well, but these were not supported by any evidence,” he said, adding, “I wish the conspiracy he is talking about right now should be similar to the ones he had alleged in the past.”
“This is all figment of his imagination,” the former premier opined.
Previously, the court allowed him to leave after marking him present in the LNG reference when he told the judges that his lawyer was on his way.
