LAHORE - PPP leaders yesterday reiterated their party’s four-point charter of demands with Bilawal stating that unless Panama bill is passed the courts won’t be able to hold Sharifs accountable.

Talking to the media at the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajveri on Sunday afternoon, the PPP chairman said that his party wanted democratic accountability on Panama leaks and democratic oversight of the National Action Plan.

He said that none of the PPP’s four demands have been accepted by the government. “We only want democratic accountability on Panama leaks”. Bilawal said there was no concept of democracy without accountability.

Later in a tweet, Bilawal said that unless Panama bill is passed the courts won’t be able to hold Sharifs accountable. “All should join me in demanding government accept the four demands,” he added.

Expressing concern over killing of innocent children at the Line of Control by the Indian Army, he said that adviser on foreign affairs was doing nothing on the foreign policy front.

He said that one of the PPP’s demands was that the country should have a full-time foreign minister.

Bilawal also criticised Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan, stating he had failed to deliver. “I can only pray for the uncle,” he said.

To a question, he said that PPP will enhance political activities in Punjab in the days to come.

Also, the newly nominated central Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira said that Judicial Commission would not be able to solve the Panama issue unless the Panama bill is passed by the Parliament. He insisted that the bill drafted by the Opposition on the subject was comprehensive.

Reiterating the four-point charter of demands, Kaira demanded that Parliamentary Committee on National Action Plan be constituted to overview its implementation. He alleged that extremists were sitting in the ranks of the government and it was not taking any action against them.

On CPEC, he said the government was making it controversial by not addressing the concerns of the smaller provinces. He said that it was the economic imbalance which caused dismemberment of the country in 1971.

He also stated that former president Asif Ali Zardari was the main architect of CPEC project who visited China several times for the purpose during his tenure as president.

He said that country’s stance on foreign issues had weakened due to absence of a full-time foreign minister.

Talking about priorities as central Punjab president, Kaira said he would reorganise the party taking along all the party workers. He said he would expose the so-called good governance claims of the Punjab government in the coming days.

The PPP leader alleged that Shehbaz Sharif got a fake mandate from the voters in 2013 elections as he lied that his party’s government would end the loadshedding in six months.

Meanwhile, Senator Ch Aitzaz Ahsan said that PTI leadership had not yet contacted him for advice on the Panama leaks case being heard by the Supreme Court. “I will give my legal opinion on it if they sought,” he added.

Answering a question, Aitzaz said that the letter from the Qatar Prince was a mere piece of paper unless he appears in the court for cross questioning. “He (Prince) could be asked over a 100 questions and his legs would crumble after 10 questions,” he said.

Aitzaz said that Nawaz Sharif should also be summoned in the court for cross questioning as former prime minister Gilani was made to appear before the court. “There should be one rule for both Nawaz Sharif and ex-PM Gilani”.

He said there was no escape for Sharifs from the Panama case. “Hussain Nawaz is on recording having said that they built steel mill in Saudi Arabia by selling a factory in the UAE. Besides, Sharif family has also admitted possession of their London flats,” he said, adding money doesn’t grow on trees.

The PPP senator said that according to Qatari Prince’s letter submitted in the court, it was evident that Sharifs had invested in the real estate business.

To a question, he said the onus of proof lies on the Sharif family and not on the PTI lawyer, Hamid Khan, whom he termed an experienced and an able lawyer.

He said the law to investigate corruption was similar all over the world.