Nawaz’s sentence may be stayed: Rana Sanaullah
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said the three-time Prime Minister and the supremo of the Pakistani Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN), Nawaz Sharif was sentenced and it was possible that they could restore Punjab’s order concerning the conviction.
“The power to suspend the sentence is in the hands of the government and the judiciary,” he told a privately-owned news network. The government is considering suspending Nawaz Sharif’s sentence, he said, adding that the government has the power to commute, reduce or suspend a person’s sentence.
If an innocent man is wrongly convicted, there is a way for the sentence to be suspended and for him to have a chance to go to court in the right way, he added.
In addition, addressing a joint press conference with Federal Minister for Law Azam Nazir Tarar at PMLN’s headquarters in Model Town here on Sunday.
The Minister of the Interior said that the government would not intervene in any way in the cases registered during the incident at Masjid-e-nabvi.
He said that if people wanted to express their feelings in a legal manner, the government could not prevent them from doing so. If someone takes an illegal route, people are entitled to take the legal route against them.
Law Minister Azam Tarar said that clauses of the blasphemy law had not been added to the FIR registered against persons concerning the Masjid-e-Nabvi incident.
“The law allows that if a Pakistani citizen commits an act outside of Pakistan, which is a crime under Pakistani law, that person may be prosecuted anywhere in Pakistan.” He went on to say that the courts could order the dismissal of cases, grant bail, or order an investigation and that the government will do what is in the court orders.
Rana Sanaullah stated that the evidence collected about the incident in Masjid-e-nabvi suggests that it was planned in Pakistan.
A group of people went there while another group arrived from the UK and carried out the plan, which saddened the entire Muslim Ummah, especially everyone in Pakistan.
He said that the bad part of all this was that they held press conferences and also said in their private meetings that this would happen. However, the government did not take it seriously.
This is because politicians make exaggerated statements and we couldn’t even imagine that they will take their vendetta to the holy places, he said.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the government have given clear instructions to the police and investigative agencies concerned to process all such applications in accordance with the law.
“If an action is illegal, the right will follow suit. If no action is recommended, then no legal action will be taken,” he said.
The Federal Interior Minister said that those accused of planning and sending groups to implement the plan would also be investigated by law enforcement agencies. He said that one person had been arrested in this regard and was being investigated, while he told others on the spot that “we would not allow him to offer Juma prayers; He didn’t come for Taraweeh and he’s hiding in the hotel, we stopped him from coming here.
This act of restricting Allah’s guests to Madina was wrong, Rana Sanaullah said that the addition of Imran Khan during his rule tried to use the state of Medina and Islam for various purposes and personal purposes and still does not stop.
Keep politics within its limits. If you come to anyone, then you must also deal with the consequences; and it will be difficult for you too to get out of your home,” he warned. He said that Imran Khan used religion in politics, which was a very dangerous tendency and this will only be stopped if the nation rejects them.
Federal Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar said that after the Masjid-e-nabvi incident, the PM questioned the legal status of the criminal cases registered.
The registration of cases is a provincial matter, he added, adding that if a case is registered in Islamabad, the Ministry of the Interior would look into the case.