ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said PML(N) leader Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will not return to Pakistan without securing a secret deal.
Talking to media persons, PM Khan said, “Nawaz Sharif had also returned to Pakistan in 2007 from Saudi Arabia under a secret deal with Musharraf.
PM Khan was talking to some journalists in the corridors of the Parliament House on Thursday when the PTI government presented mini-budget.
To a question about reports that Mr Sharif could return to the country soon, Prime Minister said: “When Nawaz went to Saudi Arabia, we used to hear for years that he was coming today or tomorrow.”
About speech by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister said: “A speech of Shehbaz Sharif is like his job application.”
He said his government was managing its affairs well and was under no threat from the opposition. “The government is not in trouble,” he remarked.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Khan presided over a special meeting of the federal cabinet that approved the Supplementary Finance Bill 2021, which was subsequently introduced in the National Assembly by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin.
In a tweet on the matter, federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said the cabinet had approved the finance bill and it would be tabled in the National Assembly.
Prime Minister Khan also presided over a meeting of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) parliamentary party where Mr Tarin explained features of the finance bill and responded to the legislators’ queries about amendments to the State Bank Act.
After the meeting, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told journalists that it was the parliamentarians’ right to be acquainted with the legislation about to be tabled in the parliament.
In response to a question, he said parliament was empowered to amend any law with a simple majority, if required, to remove any lacuna in it. The meeting of the PTI’s parliamentary party was attended by cabinet members as well as other members of the parliament.
