Clinton offered $5 billion to not conduct nuclear test in 1998”Lawyers hold protests across Pak, demand Sharif’s resignation

Lower and higher courts in Pakistan have been at stand still since Wednesday as lawyers across the country held protests demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation after a probe recommended filing a graft case against him and his family.
The protests were called by Pakistan’s top lawyers’ associations, including the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and the Supreme Court Bar Association.
The courts, where protests were organised, did not hear any case. The Supreme Court, however, continued with its proceedings, including hearing the Panama Papers leaks case.
The Lahore High Court was also paralysed by a partial strike by the lawyers.
The organizations have urged Sharif to “honorably” resign as he has “lost the moral and legal authority” to continue in his office after a joint investigation team (JIT) report accused him and his family of evading tax by setting up offshore companies to purchase high-end properties in London. Sharif has dismissed the JIT report as a “bundle of baseless allegations” and refused to quit. “The people of Pakistan have elected me and only they can remove me from this post.”
The scandal, nonetheless, threatens Sharif’s position. If the Supreme Court finds him guilty of corruption he will have to resign, throwing the country into turmoil.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has said that had he not cared for Pakistan, he would have accepted former US president Bill Clinton’s ‘s offer of $5 billion for not carrying out nuclear tests in 1998.
“I would have taken $5 billion from the US for not carrying out nuclear tests if
if I were not loyal to the country,” Sharif, said while addressing a political gathering. Pakistan had held the tests within days of India – under PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee – conducting the nuclear implosions at Pokhran in May 1998.

Sharif said amid a growing protests for his resignation as Prime Minister by
his opponents after an investigation team, tasked by the Supreme Court to probe his offshore assets and companies revealed by the Panama Papers leak, found him and is children guilty of perjury, forging documents and concealing assets