TAXILA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) disgruntled leader and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar on Saturday said that he believes that the party should not engage in confrontation with the national institutions.
“It is my suggestion to Nawaz Sharif that we should not move towards fighting with judiciary and army,” he told a press conference here. “Avoiding confrontation is in the best interest of Nawaz Sharif, PML-N and the political process,” he said. “I want to know what the PML-N’s narrative is. If any relief is going to come on the disqualification [of Nawaz Sharif], it is from the Supreme Court,” he added.
The former minister said that he had been conveying the same stance in the previous cabinet and to the party’s central executive committee. “Time has come for an elaborate discussion on several matters,” he said, adding, “I will soon reveal [information] on these matters.”
The former interior minister also talked about his speech in the National Assembly on Friday regarding the government’s failure to place the Sharif family on the exit control list (ECL). “Certain sections of media did not report my speech properly,” he said.
Responding to PPP MNA Naveed Qamar’s remarks in the Lower House, former interior minister had sought a public explanation from the government over its decision to ignore anti-corruption watchdog’s recommendations regarding placing the name of Nawaz Sharif on the ECL. “Why is one person’s name put on ECL, but not the other’s?” he wondered. “NAB’s decisions used to be taken seriously during my tenure. Now if the recommendations of NAB have been ignored, then it has not been decided by the committee but it has come from elsewhere,” he had stated.
Published in Daily Times, March 18th 2018.
