ISLAMABAD: Former DG ISI Lt General (retd) Zaheerul Islam said that he hadnever sought the resignation of the-then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in2014.
Talking to The News here on Wednesday, Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam alsocategorically denied that he had sent any message through any person toPrime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “I never sent anyone to convey any suchmessage to the prime minister,” he said, adding, “this is absolutely wrong.”
Instead, he insisted that at every stage during the 2014 sit-in, he hadbeen advising the PML-N government to engage the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insafand Pakistan Awami Tehrik politically to end the protest. Zaheerul Islamwas, however, reluctant to talk further on the subject.
Recently, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had, for the first time,claimed publicly that the former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd) Zaheer-ul-Islamhad conveyed amessage to him seeking his resignation “in the middle of thenight” during the 2014 anti-government sit-ins. “I received a message inthe middle of the night,” Sharif told PML-N members in the party’s centralexecutive committee meeting recently. He added: “It was said that ‘if youdon’t do it you will have to face the consequences and martial law can alsobe imposed’. I said do whatever you want but I won’t resign.”
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Nawaz Sharif, however, did not name the person who had brought the DG ISI’smessage to him.
By: Ansar Abbasi
