“I am hopeful that you [nation] will announce your judgments on February 8, [2024] and end the punishments meted out to you,” the former three-time prime minister said in a recorded message, aired on television channels Thursday. The three-time prime minister is eyeing a fourth stint in power after winning graft appeals that came as a boost for his bid to become the next prime minister of the country. The latest relief from the high court on Tuesday, removed one of the last major hurdles for Nawaz to qualify to contest national elections. You kept standing by me and my party through these testing times,” Nawaz told his supporters. The three-time prime minister reminded his workers that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had started a witch hunt against him on the directions of a former Supreme Court judge.


Source:   The Nation
December 14, 2023 23:06 UTC