Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday announced to retire from politics the day Supreme Court announces its verdict in the Panama Papers case.
Addressing press conference, Chaudhary Nisar, said “I will resign from the ministry and the National Assembly seat as soon as the top court issues its verdict [in the Panama Papers case]”
Nisar termed his resignation as “extremely difficult”
He added, “God willing Nawaz Sharif will emerge successful and I will head to the PM’s House to congratulate him, Nisar said. “I will do the same even if a decision is against him.”
Lamenting that he was not invited to important party meetings for the last one and a half month despite him being the senior most leader, he said: “I am not a traveller of any misguided train.”
Nisar went on to confirm that he had decided to step down from the party position a couple of days earlier. “I had decided exactly as was being speculated,” Nisar said. “It was supposed to be a short press briefing wherein I would have made public a major decision.”
The speculation of the minister’s resignation arose in the wake of the top court reserving its decision in the case relating to Sharif family’s offshore wealth.
