PPP leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has advised the PML-N against seeking action against former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa and ex-spymaster retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hamid and not to engage in such confrontations.
The remarks from the senior PPP leader come in the backdrop of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s recent hard-hitting statement, in which he held the two former top military officials for his removal from power in 2017 and the country’s ongoing crises.
“(Former) chief justices Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa were tools of [the former army chief and his spy chief]. Their crime is bigger than a murder offence. Giving them pardon will be an injustice to the nation. They don’t deserve pardon,” Mr Sharif said, vowing to hold them accountable.
“These ‘characters’ who unleashed economic misery on the people of Pakistan will have to face accountability,” the PML-N supreme leader said in an address via a video link from London earlier this month.
Likewise, PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah assailed former generals Bajwa and Faiz Hameed earlier this week, declaring them “national criminals” and demanding action against them.
“The way the PML-N brought Gen Pervez Musharraf to justice, it will do the same to [both men],” he said.
Sanaullah sought ‘strict accountability’ of former generals and judges, saying that it was a policy statement on behalf of the party.
In an interview in DawnNewsTV show “Doosra Rukh” on Friday, Khursheed Shah was asked about Nawaz’s statement, to which he said the materialisation of the PML-N’s plan of going after the two former military leaders seemed“very difficult“.
“Did anyone touch the man who was sentenced under Article 6 of the Constitution? He was later hospitalised, and subsequently transferred to Dubai?” Shah remarked, referring to late military dictator Pervez Musharraf.
“Let’s refrain from engaging in such conflicts,” he advised the PML-N, further noting that “politicians often find themselves entangled in such situations.”
He stressed the need of directing attention towards guaranteeing fair elections, managing increasing inflation, adhering to the Charter of Democracy, and establishing good governance traditions.
The PPP leader further said parties in the former ruling coalition, which was led by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), while in government discussed multiple times the prospect of jointly governing the country for the next five years to “strengthen democracy”.
He expressed the PPP’s ongoing interest in cooperation and institution-building, emphasising that all institutions upheld the primacy of parliament.
“We should refrain from emotionalism or resorting to political invective,” he added.
He also claimed that the PPP had faced “significant pressure” to rejoin the PDM coalition — which it had left in April 2021.
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