Is everyone else honest and righteous in Pak, asks Nawaz Sharif

Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, still smarting from his disqualification by the Supreme Court for dishonesty, wants to know if everyone else in Pakistan is “Sadiq and Ameen (honest and righteous)”.

The apex court on Friday disqualified the 67-year-old for dishonesty, forcing him to resign as Prime Minister.

The court’s ruling stated that Mr Sharif had been dishonest in not disclosing his earnings from a Dubai-based company in his nomination papers during the 2013 general election.

Addressing leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday, Mr Sharif said, “You should be proud that your leader doesn’t have a stain of corruption on him.”

“I am proud that I have not been declared ineligible over charges of corruption,” he said at the PML-N’s parliamentary meeting that approved his brother and Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif as his successor.

“Is it only my family that should be held accountable? Is everyone else in this country Sadiq (honest) and Ameen (righteous)?” he asked.

Pakistan’s National Assembly will elect Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as interim PM on Tuesday. He will later make way for Shehbaz Sharif after the latter gets elected to Parliament.