Shehbaz returns tomorrow as Nawaz announces campaign against ‘double standards of justice’

LAHORE (Monitoring Desk): Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif is expected to return from London on Monday, a day after deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif announced a full fledged campaign against, what he called, the “double standards of justice.”

The deposed premier and daughter Maryam Nawaz arrived in Lahore earlier today. The two had left for London earlier this month to meet the ailing former first lady Kulsoom Nawaz.

On Saturday, Nawaz had said the “double standards of justice were not acceptable, and that they will do everything to uphold the supremacy of the law and the Constitution.”

According to him, while he was disqualified for not receiving a salary from his son, Khan’s hundreds of thousands of pounds had not been viewed as an ‘asset’ [by the top court].

Last week, the top court, while announcing two verdicts on constitutional petitions filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi, gave a clean chit to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan but disqualified general secretary Jahangir Tareen.

On July 28, the top court had disqualified Nawaz for failing to declare an unclaimed salary from a Dubai-based company of his son, as an asset when filing his nomination papers in 2013.