Former Pakistan PM and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has banned his party members from holding any private meetings with the country’s military leadership.
The move came a day after the Pakistan’s main opposition party found itself in an embarrassing position following army spokesperson Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar’s confirmation that senior PML-N leader Mohammad Zubair had held two meetings with army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to discuss the future of Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz.
Interestingly, a conference of all mainstream opposition parties on Sunday had accused the military establishment of interfering in Pakistan’s politics and elections.
If necessitated by national security or constitutional requirements, such meetings in the future will be approved by the party’s leadership and will be made public, Sharif wrote on Twitter. “I am instructing my party that no member in private, individual or collective capacity will meet any representative of army or intelligence agencies,” he said.
