The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) looks to the elder Sharif for leadership in important political matters despite the fact that he has been living in London.
Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif has instructed his younger brother and current prime minister Shehbaz Sharif to avoid speaking with former leader Imran Khan, who is currently heading a large march to Islamabad calling for immediate general elections.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) looks to the elder Sharif for leadership in important political matters despite the fact that he has been living in London.
Nawaz Sharif stated in a series of tweets that Khan regularly made the assertion that he would bring a million people to Islamabad, but that he had only been able to pull together 2,000 people and was frantically seeking a face-saving gesture from the government.
PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif tweeted, “I have advised Shahbaz Sharif that whether he [Imran] brings 2,000 or 20,000 people, he [the prime minister] should neither listen to any demand of this fitna [mischief] nor offer him any face-saving, for which he is desperate.
He added that Khan’s depraved lies had been revealed in front of the country, which was the cause of the people’s lack of interest in the lengthy march.
“He [Imran] told lie after lie with such brazenness and obstinacy that DG ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] was compelled to break his silence and give the nation the truth, which he could not answer even after so many lies had been told,”
That is the reason, Nawaz insisted, adding that “Imran’s sole emphasis is on vulgar language as usual.” The tweets followed many allegations of secret negotiations between the government and Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf regarding the scheduling of elections ahead of schedule.
The rumours gained credibility after Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday established a 13-member committee, which included officials from the parties in the ruling coalition, to discuss the march. Sharif said that anyone seeking to speak with the committee was welcome to do so.
Khan was barred from serving in the current National Assembly earlier this month by a five-member panel of the Pakistani Election Commission (ECP).
