ISLAMABAD: Senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Aitzaz Ashan hassaid that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid, Nawaz Sharif wasstabbed in back after calling him back from London.

Talking to media persons in Islamabad on Saturday, he said that PML-NPresident Shehbaz Sharif and party leaders deceived the party supremo andhe was met the same treatment as Mir Jaffar did with Siraj ud Daula inbattle of Plassey.

He said he has never seen the scenes observed on the occasion of return ofNawaz and Maryam on Friday.

The PPP leader said that political role of the PML-N supremo will beadversely affected after being jailed. Maryam can do nothing without herfather if she was even released on bail, he further stated.

Aitzaz said that of the 18 former MNAs of PML-N and 38 candidates of theparty for the general election 2018 from Lahore, not a single personreached to welcome Nawaz. The PML-N leaders intentionally kept them away ofthe scene, he alleged. He said that only Mushahidullah Khan was the personwho showed courage to some extent and reached the airport.

The show of power of Nawaz and Maryam was badly flopped due to theconspiracy of their owner party leaders, he said.

He further stated that PPP held hundreds of such protests and rallies andthe party leaders always remained at front on the occasion.

The PPP leader said that Kh. Saad Rafique who had earlier made tall claimsof removing all hurdles and extending warm welcome to his party Quaid alsoremained missing from the scene.