ISLAMABAD: The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday exacerbated the confrontation that just lately broke out between him and Pakistan’s ruling establishment over the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
The National Security Committee (NSC), Pakistan’s best civil-military body tasked to take a very powerful nationwide security and foreign coverage choices, had known as Sharif’s public admission that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, baseless.
On Tuesday, after his look on the responsibility courtroom the place he is being tried for corruption, the former three-time Prime Minister broke his silence over his altercation with the Pakistani military in the 2016 NSC huddle. Sharif, as in line with an unique Dawn information record, in that meeting had raised the issue of Pakistan’s rising world isolation as a result of behind-the-scenes support by means of navy to banned terror groups, including Jaish-e-Muhammad, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Haqqani Network.
But it changed into an issue and was dubbed as “Dawn leaks”, Sharif recalled on Tuesday. “The time has come that the rustic should know who was responsible for terrorism and the current state of affairs. What have we grew to become this nation into? Who offered terrorism to this gorgeous nation? The time has come to decide who's a patriot and who's a traitor. Who led Pakistan towards isolation and has introduced the rustic to a level the place the world community isn't in a position to accept Pakistan’s narrative?” he requested tough the nationwide commission be tasked to find the reasons.
“I am not simply an ordinary citizen however a three-time prime minister elected by means of the people of Pakistan. I'm aware of many realities and would reveal fact if a commission is formed,” he stated.
Addressing a rally in northwestern Buner district on Monday night time, Sharif stated the guilty birthday party, whether or not him or those levelling allegations towards him, should be publicly hanged as soon as the commission’s verdict comes.
Later on Tuesday, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi throughout his cope with on the National Assembly stated it was unacceptable that Sharif was being known as a “traitor,” by means of political fighters following his admission of Pakistan’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Abbasi reiterated that Sharif was now not the only person who had raised the issue of support for terrorism in Pakistan. Former president Gen Pervez Musharraf, former DG ISI Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, former National security Adviser (NSA) Maj Gen Mahmud Ali Durrani and previous internal minister Rehman Malik have also spoken about it, the PM stated.
“We will never let our land be used towards some other nation,” he stated. Following his remarks, the opposition events staged a walkout in protest.
Incidentally, navy spokesman Major General Athar Abbas, in 2011, had hinted on the involvement of retired ISI officers in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The National Security Committee (NSC), Pakistan’s best civil-military body tasked to take a very powerful nationwide security and foreign coverage choices, had known as Sharif’s public admission that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, baseless.
On Tuesday, after his look on the responsibility courtroom the place he is being tried for corruption, the former three-time Prime Minister broke his silence over his altercation with the Pakistani military in the 2016 NSC huddle. Sharif, as in line with an unique Dawn information record, in that meeting had raised the issue of Pakistan’s rising world isolation as a result of behind-the-scenes support by means of navy to banned terror groups, including Jaish-e-Muhammad, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Haqqani Network.
But it changed into an issue and was dubbed as “Dawn leaks”, Sharif recalled on Tuesday. “The time has come that the rustic should know who was responsible for terrorism and the current state of affairs. What have we grew to become this nation into? Who offered terrorism to this gorgeous nation? The time has come to decide who's a patriot and who's a traitor. Who led Pakistan towards isolation and has introduced the rustic to a level the place the world community isn't in a position to accept Pakistan’s narrative?” he requested tough the nationwide commission be tasked to find the reasons.
“I am not simply an ordinary citizen however a three-time prime minister elected by means of the people of Pakistan. I'm aware of many realities and would reveal fact if a commission is formed,” he stated.
Addressing a rally in northwestern Buner district on Monday night time, Sharif stated the guilty birthday party, whether or not him or those levelling allegations towards him, should be publicly hanged as soon as the commission’s verdict comes.
Later on Tuesday, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi throughout his cope with on the National Assembly stated it was unacceptable that Sharif was being known as a “traitor,” by means of political fighters following his admission of Pakistan’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Abbasi reiterated that Sharif was now not the only person who had raised the issue of support for terrorism in Pakistan. Former president Gen Pervez Musharraf, former DG ISI Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, former National security Adviser (NSA) Maj Gen Mahmud Ali Durrani and previous internal minister Rehman Malik have also spoken about it, the PM stated.
“We will never let our land be used towards some other nation,” he stated. Following his remarks, the opposition events staged a walkout in protest.
Incidentally, navy spokesman Major General Athar Abbas, in 2011, had hinted on the involvement of retired ISI officers in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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