slamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has insinuated that General Shuja Pasha’s impending retirement will impair Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI).
Speaking outside the Parliament House Saturday, PML stalwart Chaudary Nisar Ali Khan said that General Pasha’s demise will jeopardize the growth of Pakistan’s major “Revolutionary Party”.
“General Pasha’s retirement will make a large revolutionary party orphan,” he said.
Speaking exclusively to Saach TV, on condition of anonymity, a senior leader of PML-N said that ISI’s outgoing chief General Pasha has been involved in abetting the growth of PTI across the country.
Making another startling revelation, he said that veteran politician Chaudhry Shujat Hussain had complained to the army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani that General Pasha was involved in creating turncoats, who were offered hefty incentives to join PTI.
He further alleged the General Pasha maintained a grudge against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif as the latter had castigated him in the All Parties Conference for his failure to avert the Abbottabad operation in which US forces intruded into Pakistan’s territory and killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
He claimed that PML-N holds documentary evidence pertaining to General Pasha’s role in backing PTI, and will divulge it in a suitable period in time.
“Pasha’s ouster will bring an end to the political ‘Tsunami’ of PTI,” he added.
Information Secretary of PTI, Shafqat Mehmood emphatically refuted the claims of PML-N leaders, saying that the party is trying to conceal its own historical relationship with the intelligence agencies.
Mehmood said that there is unambiguous evidence that former chief of Mehran Bank, Younis Habib delivered money to Nawaz Sharif in person on behalf of the intelligence agencies.
Speaking about the role of army in the country’s politics, Mehmood commented that his party did not have any proof which could establish that intelligence agencies were currently meddling in the civilian set-up.
However, Mehmood assailed Nawaz for becoming an instrument of the military in the unpopular Memogate scandal. He further claimed that Shahbaz Sharif held clandestine meetings with the army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to mend relations with the army.
Renowned political analyst, Haroon ur Rashid said that there was no concrete evidence about ISI’s role in supporting PTI. He lauded the army chief for eliminating the role of the military in politics.
He admitted that General Pasha had said, in a high-level meeting, that he would personally vote for PTI in the general elections.
However, Rashid dispelled the impression that ISI was behind the pervasive rise of PTI.
He further claimed that Shahbaz Sharif met General Kayani six times during his tenure as Chief Minister Punjab to solicit support from the army which was never rendered.
Rashid said that PML-N’s history was fraught with examples in which it was abetted by the spy agencies; however, the army is loath to interfere in politics anymore.
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