‘I stand by it’: Chaudhry Salik sticks to Punjab corruption claims despite Maryam's ire
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Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and PML-Q leader Chaudhry Salik Hussain on Wednesday asserted that he stood by his claims regarding corruption in Punjab. Last week, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz sent a Rs5 billion defamation notice to Hussain for levelling allegations of corruption against her government and demanded that he retract his remarks. “Reality is reality. I stand by it and will continue to,” he said on Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’ while responding to a question about his brother Shafay Hussain being a minister in the same Punjab government he had criticised. Salik said…
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14h ago‘I stand by it’: Chaudhry Salik sticks to Punjab corruption claims despite Maryam's ire Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and PML-Q leader Chaudhry Salik Hussain on Wednesday asserted that he stood by his claims regarding corruption in Punjab. Last week, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz sent a Rs5 billion defamation notice to Hussain for levelling allegations of corruption against her government and demanded that he retract his remarks. “Reality is reality. I stand by it and will continue to,” he said on Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’ while responding to a question about his brother Shafay Hussain being a minister in the same Punjab government he had criticised. Salik said…
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