Syed Khursheed Shah, a former opposition leader, has urged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to refrain from taking any action against Gen. (ret.) Qamar Javed Bajwa and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Faiz Hameed.
After PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif recently blamed the two retired officials for his 2017 resignation and the country’s ongoing issues, the senior PPP leader made his comments.
The former army leader and his spy chief used (former chief judges) Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa as pawns. Their crime goes far beyond the scope of homicide. It would be unfair to the country to grant them amnesty. Nawaz declared, “They don’t deserve pardon,” and vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
In an address he gave earlier this month from London, he vowed that the “characters” responsible for unleashing economic suffering on the people of Pakistan will be held accountable.
Bajwa and Faiz, two former high-ranking officials in the Afghan military, were labelled “national criminals” and called for their arrest by former interior minister Rana Sanaullah earlier this week.
“The PML-N will bring [both men] to justice in the same way it brought Gen. Pervez Musharraf to justice,” Sanaullah, a member of the PML-N, said.
As a party policy declaration, the former interior minister pushed for the “strict accountability” of retired generals and judges.
Khursheed was asked about Nawaz’s statement in an interview with a private news channel, and he said that the PML-N’s intention to go after the two former military chiefs sounded “very difficult” to make a reality.
When the individual was punished under Article 6 of the Constitution, did anyone come into contact with him? Later, Khursheed said, “he was hospitalised and transferred to Dubai,” referring to the late military dictator Musharraf.
Politicians “often find themselves entangled in such situations,” he warned the PML-N, so “let’s refrain from engaging in such conflicts.”
He emphasised the importance of ensuring free and fair elections, controlling rising prices, upholding the Charter of Democracy, and developing norms of good governance.
As for temporary Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, he claimed that it appeared the “actual prime minister” was the secretary of the Establishment Division.
He who heads up the Establishment Branch is the Prime Minister.
