LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Ahmad on Monday warned former Sindh governor Mohammad Zubair of legal consequences on levelling allegations about Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with former army chief QamarJavedBajwa before ouster of Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s government.
“I did not expect this from Zubair. He has spoken a baseless thing, which could have legal consequences,” Ahmad said talking to media in Lahore.
Zubair, who recently parted ways with the ruling PML-N, had spoken in an interview with a TV channel about the ouster of the PTI-led government in 2022. Talking to the TV channel, the senior politician had claimed that Nawaz met the former army chief in London, before the no trust vote against the PTI government.
Dismissing the former PML-N leader’s claim, he said Zubair had stated a lie about the PML-N president’s meeting with Bajwa in London. He could put himself into trouble for speaking such a thing, Ahmad said.
“Zubair should reveal details about Nawaz-Bajwa meeting. When did it take place and where,” he asked, adding no engagement or meeting of a leader of Nawaz’s stature could remain secret.
“What to talk of Nawaz’s meeting with Bajwa, they even did not speak on phone,” he said.
On PTI’s demand for constitution of a commission to probe the former Sindh governor’s statement, the Punjab Assembly speaker said before going towards a judicial commission, Zubair should apprise when the meeting took place.
On the basis of the former PML-N leader’s statement, PTI Central Information Secretary RaoofHasan on Saturday called for a suomotu notice by the Supreme Court on the former ruling party’s ouster from the government.
PTI founder Imran Khan had been removed from the Office of the Prime Minister through a vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly, led by the then-opposition parties alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
Since then, the former ruling party has continued to accuse PML-N and its allied parties of plotting to overturn Khan’s government with assistance from former army chief Bajwa.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Hasan said that Zubair’s statement was in line with Khan’s narrative.
