PM Shehbaz equates decision over polls to ‘judicial murder’ of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

ISLAMABAD: On Tuesday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif referred to the 1979 judicial assassination of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, noting that the tragic incident was reenacted on April 4 with a Supreme Court ruling in the polls delay case.

The prime minister, who took part in the National Assembly session, compared the two decisions and stated that it was extremely regrettable that justice had been murdered. He claimed that during the cabinet meeting, they had demanded that the full court take up and decide a reference regarding the late prime minister’s judicial murder, which had been pending for the previous 12 years.

He said the world knew that ZAB’s case was a ‘judicial murder’. One of the former judges, who had decided the case, had accepted it in his memories, he added. The prime minister also lauded late ZAB and said he was among the founders of the 1973 Constitution and his historic contribution would always be remembered. He also asked the House to pray for the departed soul of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday thanked his special assistant Fahd Husain, who stepped from the post.

“Thank you for your service to the country, Fahd sb. As my Special Assistant on public policy and strategic communication, I greatly benefited from your wise counsel,” he said in a tweet.  Sharif said he found Fahd Husain a wonderful team player and a great human being. “My best wishes to you for your future endeavours,” he said. Fahd Husain announced on Twitter that he had stepped down as Special Assistant to PM after productive stint of a year. “Grateful to PM Shehbaz for giving me opportunity to serve in public office,” he said. He said, “I witnessed first-hand how PM navigated multiple fault lines in tough times. None other could have done it better.”