ISLAMABAD, May 15 (TNS): Islamabad High Court on Tuesday reserved verdict on a petition seeking action against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s controversial statement about Mumbai Attacks.<\/p>\n
The counsel of petitioners\u2019 Babar Awan asserted that Nawaz Sharif committed treason against his oath with his controversial statement. \u201cThis is the matter of violating the law\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cFederal Investigation Agency (FIA) should be given orders to take action against Nawaz Sharif and a ban on the broadcast of his speeches should also be imposed\u201d, petition demanded.<\/p>\n
Babar Awan Advocate quoted the example of Lahore High Court orders to bar the speeches of the founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as a reference.<\/p>\n
Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have been made the party in the petition.<\/p>\n
Deposed premier Mian Nawaz Sharif, in an interview with a leading English daily, said that \u201cmilitant organizations are active\u201d in Pakistan and asked the interviewer if the state should allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai.<\/p>\n
PML-N supreme leader\u2019s stance on the \u2018Mumbai Attacks\u2019 opened a floodgate of criticism from analysts, politicians and opinion makers in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Sharif, who was answering a question about his ouster during the interview, steered the conversation towards foreign policy and national security by saying that Pakistan has isolated itself in international arena despite giving sacrifices in the war on terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, May 15 (TNS): Islamabad High Court on Tuesday reserved verdict on a petition seeking action against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s controversial statement about Mumbai Attacks. The counsel of petitioners\u2019 Babar Awan asserted that Nawaz Sharif committed treason against his oath with his controversial statement. \u201cThis is the matter of violating the law\u201d, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65414,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65413\/revisions\/65414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}