LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President and former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat
Hussain and senior central leader and former deputy prime minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi have said that the army foiled Nawaz Sharif’s plan for a civil war.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s crucial role as arbitrator is being prai
sed across the c
ountry for breaking a three-week-long stalemate between the g
overnment and protesters at the capital city’s Faizabad Interchange, they said in a joint statement.
“Conspiracy of puppet g
overnment of Nawaz Sharif was that in the name of establishing the writ of the g
overnment the army be involved in the operation against sit-in and made controversial but Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa proved too wise and kept the army o
ut of this sensitive dispute,” the PML-Q leaders said. “If, God forbid, the army had also become controversial on being involved in this dispute then conspiracy to destabilise Pakistan could have succeeded,” they said.
The PML-Q leaders said now that the army on the request of the g
overnment had got jotted down an agreement in writing with the protesting leaders, the g
overnment should also not show any further ‘cleverness’ and instead abide by the written agreement. They urged the rulers to pinpoint the culprit – who changed the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat declaration – within the fixed time and make him an example so that nobody dared touch the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat law in the future.
Published in Daily Times, November 28th 2017.