Reacting to Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Khurshid Shah's admission that the government would not investigate Nawaz Sharif in this case through FIA, Mahmood said that the cat was now out of the bag and the secret alliance between the PPP and PML-N had been fully exposed. Khurshid Shah had told media on Wednesday that the government had no plan to hold an inquiry into the allegations that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had received money from intelligence agencies in 1990 as ordered by the Supreme Court in the Asghar Khan case. He also said that the Asghar Khan case is buried.
Shafqat Mahmood further added that the Supreme Court had issued a clear directive that all politicians involved in receiving money from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to rig the 1990 elections should be investigated by the FIA so as charges be farmed against those who were found guilty.
He said that the expose by Khurshid Shah was nothing new for the PTI workers as Imran Khan had been telling people at large that the leadership of both the political parties was hand in glove and they had no intention to expose each-other's misdeeds. Rather, both the parties have been covering-up each-other's misdeeds, he said, adding that it was pity that the PPP, who was blaming Nawaz Sharif for receiving money from the ISI to rig 1990 polls, was now covering up the malpractices by the PML-N chief. The PTI leader said that the people of Pakistan would never allow these politicians to scratch another's back and if no action is taken against politicians involved in the scam by the FIA, the PTI would decide its future strategy accordingly.