Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and head of theInter-Services Intelligence Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed had asked keyopposition figures not to involve the military into political issues.
A few days before opposition’s All Parties Conference, the COAS had ameeting with over 15 opposition figures including Leader of the Oppositionin the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan Peoples Party chairmanBilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Sirajul Haq and others.
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Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed who also attended the meeting, revealedthat the agenda of the meeting was the constitutional status ofGilgit-Baltistan. However, during the meeting, the opposition raised theirconcerns, especially about the military’s alleged interference in politics,local media reported.
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However, the COAS and ISI chief made it clear to the leaders that the armyshould not be dragged into politics and that it is ‘not involved, directlyor indirectly, in any political process of the country’.
