*Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif claimed on Wednesday that former ISIchief Lieutenant General (retired) Zaheer-ul-Islam had asked him to resign“in the middle of the night” during the 2014 anti-government sit-ins.*
“I received a message in the middle of the night,” Sharif told PML-Nmembers in the party’s central executive committee meeting. “It was saidthat ‘if you don’t do that you will have to face the consequences andmartial law can also be imposed’.
“I said… do whatever you want but I won’t resign,” Sharif added.
In 2014, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Tahir-ul-Qadri’s Pakistan AwamiTehreek had staged a 126-day sit-in in Islamabad against alleged rigging ofthe 2013 elections.
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Lt Gen (retired) Islam had served as the ISI chief from March 19, 2012 toNovember 7, 2014.
This is the first time that Sharif has publicly commented on Islam’sreported plot to overthrow his government.
