Military leadership: Nawaz bans party members from holding private meetings

ISLAMABAD: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said from now on no one from his party will hold individual, private or delegation-level meetings with the country's military leadership.

If necessitated by national security or constitutional requirements, such meetings in the future will be approved by the party's leadership and will be made public, he wrote on his personal Twitter account.

Sharif's tweet comes a day after the Pakistan Army disclosed that former senior PML-N leader and Sindh governor Mohammad Zubair had twice reached out to Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and discussed political and legal woes of Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz in the past few weeks.

Sharif said "recent events once again prove how some meetings remain hidden behind seven veils while others are given the colour of choice through publicising them. This game should now stop."

The PML-N supremo added that he was prohibiting his party members from meeting representatives of military or associated agencies in order to fulfil "requisites of Constitution of Pakistan and to remind the armed forces to comply with their oath".

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