LAHORE: Alleging that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif met with retired general Qamar Javed Bajwa, the head of the army staff, prior to the overthrow of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Ahmad threatened to file a lawsuit against former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Mohammad Zubair.
Speaking to the media in Lahore, Ahmad said he didn’t think Zubair would make such a claim. He claimed that the former governor of Sindh had made an erroneous statement for which he might be held legally responsible.
Speaking with a television network, Zubair—who recently left the PML-N—discussed the fall of the PTI administration in 2022.
Before a motion of no confidence was taken against Imran Khan, the prime minister at the time, the politician stated that Nawaz had met Bajwa in London.
He rejected the assertion made by the former PML-N leader, claiming that Zubair had made up a falsehood regarding the PML-N president’s meeting with Bajwa in London. Ahmad warned him that he could get into problems for saying something like that.
“Zubair ought to divulge information regarding the Nawaz-Bajwa meeting. “Where and when did it happen?” he inquired, adding that a leader of Nawaz’s caliber could hardly keep an engagement or meeting a secret.
“What to talk of Nawaz’s meeting with Bajwa, they even did not speak on phone,” he stated.
