PML-N not intimidated by these threats: senior leader

Javed says if NAB thinks cheap tactics will stop Sharif from returning to politics, ‘think again’

LAHORE:

The government’s decision to bring back former premier Nawaz Sharif from London has proven correct the fears of PML-N leaders that any attempt by Sharif and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, to return to politics would draw the wrath of the establishment.

A few days ago, Sharif reportedly called parties’ leaders triggering rumours of his comeback to the political arena.

Earlier this month, Maryam had also broken her silence after a long time. She, during her first news conference after a long time, had feared that if she broke her silence it would create trouble for her father, who, according to her, was under treatment in London.

She said that she was silent because she did not want to create any sort of hindrance for her father. Senior PML-N leader Javed Latif said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did what Maryam had predicted earlier in her news conference, proving that they were doing nothing but political victimisation.

He; however, said that the PML-N, especially the Sharif family, is not intimidated by all this, adding that that all this would be responded to by party leaders in their media briefings.

He said that this attempt to pressurise the PML-N would not result in Maryam or Sharif reacting to it immediately. He said that Maryam will play her role for sure but it would not be to react to such meaningless things. “When the time comes, there will be space for Maryam to play her role and given that the party belongs to Sharif, there can be no difference of opinion with the party strategy.”

He said that the party has seen that politics of reconciliation has brought nothing fruitful for it and now the pursuer of that policy must also have realised his mistake. “Nawaz Sharif would not stay a day longer after completing his treatment in London.”

Javed told The Express Tribune that if NAB thinks that these cheap tactics would stop Sharif from returning to politics, “think again”.

“Nawaz Sharif is raring to comeback, leaving behind even his treatment for the country; however, it was they who were stopping him from returning.”

He said that Sharif was ready to play his leading role in the country, adding that he not afraid of death. “A man, who can leave behind his wife on the deathbed, fears nothing.”

He said that realising that Sharif was again active, the government and NAB deployed these cheap tactics, adding that that similarly NAB sent notices to Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his brother Ziaur Rehman to harass them.