Pak should know who’s the traitor: Sharif dares army!
Islamabad:
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday exacerbated the war of words that recently broke out between him and Pakistan’s ruling establishment over the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks by demanding that a national commission be formed to find out who committed treason.
On Monday, the National Security Committee (NSC), Pakistan’s top civil-military body, had termed Sharif’s public admission that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks as “incorrect and misleading”.
Talking to reporters outside the accountability court hearing corruption cases against him and his family, Nawaz said the
NSC statement was “wrong, painful and frightening”.
The former three-time PM recalled an altercation between him and the Pakistani army during a 2016 NSC huddle in which he had raised the issue of Pakistan’s growing international isolation because of military’s “behind-the-scenes support” to banned terror groups, including Jaish-e-Muhammad, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Haqqani Network.
“The time has come that the country should know who was responsible for terrorism and the current state of affairs. What have we turned this country into? Who introduced terrorism to this beautiful country? The time has come to decide who is a patriot and who is a traitor. Who led Pakistan towards isolation and has brought the country to a stage where the international community is not ready to accept Pakistan’s narrative?” he asked, demanding that a national commission be tasked to find the causes.
“I am not just an ordinary citizen but a three-time prime minister elected by the people of Pakistan.
I am privy to many realities and would reveal truth if a commission is formed,” he said.
Earlier, addressing a rally in northwestern Buner district on Monday night, Sharif said the guilty party, whether him or those levelling allegations against him, should be publicly hanged once the commission’s verdict comes.
Meanwhile,
PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during an address at the National Assembly said it was unacceptable that Sharif was being called a “traitor,” by political opponents following his admission of Pakistan’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Abbasi reiterated that Sharif was not the only one who had raised the issue of support for terrorism in Pakistan.
Former president General Pervez Musharraf, former DG ISI Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan, former national security adviser Major Gen Mahmud Ali Durrani and former interior minister Rehman Malik have also spoken about it, the PM said. “We will never let our land be used against any other country,” he said. Following his remarks, the opposition parties staged a walkout in protest.
Hitting out at the Pakistan army following a row over his Mumbai attack comments, ex-PM Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday demanded that a national commission be formed to find out who committed treason.
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So the battle is on! Sharif is pissed off with the Establishment for dethroning him as PM since he had consistently refused to tow the line of the Paki Army and landing on their wrong side. Let's hope he ups the ante against the Establishment and embarrasses them further.