Political decisions should be taken in parliament, not GHQ: PML-N's Maryam Nawaz

[ghazi52]

Maryam admits Zubair met army chief, talked about her and Nawaz

He [Zubair] had discussed me and Nawaz Sharif in a meeting with Gen Qamar last week, says PML-N leader

News Desk
September 28, 2020

Maryam Nawaz addresses a news conference in Lahore.


Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Monday admitted that former Sindh Governor and senior party leader Mohammad Zubair Umar had met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa last week to discuss matters related to her and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

“Mohammad Zubair belongs to PML-N and it is obvious that he had discussed me and Nawaz Sharif in a meeting with Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa which was held last week,” she said while addressing a press conference in Lahore along with other PML-N leaders.

She further termed meetings of Zubair with the military leadership as his "personal affair".
Last week, Mohammad Zubair had confirmed his meetings with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar after the DG ISPR apprised media regarding their details.

Speaking to a private television channel, Mohammad Zubair said that he met the COAS and the discussion between the two also included a debate on matters pertaining to Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif.

“Army chief termed matters against the PML-N leaders as legal affairs and said that courts should decide on them,” he said while quoting the army chief and further added that such meetings are held in "secret".

The PML-N stalwart said he had a 40-year-old relationship with Gen Qamar. “I met him during the wedding ceremony of Asad Umar’s son, where the army chief asked me to meet him in Islamabad,” he said.
Maryam Nawaz, last week, had said that she was not aware of any dinner at the GHQ and that no representatives of Nawaz Sharif had met the military leadership.

“Perhaps it wasn’t dinner. What I’ve heard is that the meeting was convened to discuss the Gilgit-Baltistan [election] issue," Maryam responded to a reporter outside the Islamabad High Court, where she had a hearing of her appeal against her conviction in the Avenfield property reference.

“It is a political issue… an issue of people's representatives… and it’s for them to solve with consultation and deliberation. Such decisions should be taken in parliament, not in GHQ,” Maryam had said.

 

[Clutch]

Political decisions should be made in Pakistan and not London.

 

[Zibago]

Political decisions should be taken in parliament, not GHQ: PML-N's Maryam Nawaz


Dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
23 Sep 2020

PML-V Vice President Maryam Nawaz speaks to the media outside the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday. — DawnNewsTV


PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday said that political decisions should be made in the parliament, not at the General Headquarters (GHQ).
Maryam, who was at the Islamabad High Court for a hearing of an appeal against her conviction in the Avenfield property reference, was responding to a question from a reporter about Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa and head of the ISI Lt Gen Faiz Hameed's meeting with key opposition figures.

"I don't know about a dinner, maybe it was not a dinner [but] I heard about the meeting. From what I understand it was called to discuss Gilgit-Baltistan which is a political issue, an issue of the people's representatives, for them to solve and deliberate upon.

"These decisions should be made in parliament, not in GHQ," she said.


When asked whether former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was aware of the meeting, she said: "I don't know whether he was aware of [the meeting] or if he learnt of it later.

"But the political leadership should not be called nor should it go to discuss such issues. Whoever wishes to discuss these issues should come to the parliament."
Earlier in the week, it emerged that the army chief and the head of the ISI had held a meeting with key opposition figures before their multiparty conference and counselled them to refrain from dragging the military into political issues.

The September 16 meeting was attended by about 15 opposition figures including Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq, ANP’s Amir Haider Hoti, JUI-F’s Asad Mahmood, PML-N leaders Khawaja Asif and Ahsan Iqbal, PPP’s Senator Sherry Rehman and a few government ministers.

Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid, while confirming the meeting and its participants in a conversation with Dawn, had said the meeting was held to discuss the impending changes in the constitutional status of Gilgit-Baltistan.

However, the opposition had used this opportunity to flag its concerns about other matters, especially the military’s alleged interference in politics and allegations of persecution of its leaders on the pretext of accountability.

The timing of the meeting and its disclosure was linked by the onlookers to the opposition’s multiparty conference held on Sep 20 in which Nawaz had bitterly criticised the Army, saying there was “a state above the state in the country”.

Rashid had said the army chief clearly told the participants of the meeting that the Army was not in any manner linked to the political processes and had no involvement in matters concerning election reforms and accountability.

The army chief, however, had said the military only responds to calls for assistance by the elected civilian government and it would continue doing so irrespective of who is in office.
Gen Bajwa had reportedly categorically conveyed that no one would be allowed to create chaos in the country.

Parliament mein to sirf dramay kagatey ho tum log

 

[ziaulislam]

So are resignations coming or not??

 

[Crimson Blue]

Great day for PML-N and Maryam Nawaz. Tariq Fateh has written an article in Toronto Sun in support of Maryam Nawaz.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-pakistans-joan-of-arc-frightens-its-generals

 

[blueazure]

letting this psycho lady and her crook dad out was the biggest mistake of Establishment and courts


ab bhugto isse

 

[Syed1.]

Claims of democracy!



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[macnurv]

Oh cry me a river missy. You and your whole family is one of the worst things that ever happened to Pakistan. Not only you had pushed Pakistani society towards Right but made them numb to common sense. Your dad ran Pakistan, even a dhaba cant be run, your clown of a father didnt appoint a foreign minister for his 4 years and made claims army didnt allow.
I am also savouring what these Sharifs had done to establishment, after all it was them which provided safe get away to Nawaz, now eat the fruits of your own making.
One thing is clear Pakistani establishment had learned all the wrong lessons after 71 war, no one ABSOLUTELY NO ONE should be allowed to challenge the state, and state is the only one with absolute control over violence yet there are millions of Napoleon running around and challenging the state. For F's sake can some one please read "Pakistan: A hard country" and understand what the heck is wrong with those in power in Pakistan. Jeez the drama continues.

 

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Sexually transmitted democracy... STD in short

Sexually transmitted democracy... STD in short

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