WATCH: Maryam admits Zubair met army chief, talked about her and Nawaz

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Monday admitted that former Sindh Governor and senior party leader Mohammad Zubair Umar had met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa last week to discuss matters related to her and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

“Mohammad Zubair belongs to PML-N and it is obvious that he had discussed me and Nawaz Sharif in a meeting with Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa which was held last week,” she said while addressing a press conference in Lahore along with other PML-N leaders.

She further termed meetings of Zubair with the military leadership as his "personal affair".

Last week, Mohammad Zubair had confirmed his meetings with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar after the DG ISPR apprised media regarding their details.

Speaking to a private television channel, Mohammad Zubair said that he met the COAS and the discussion between the two also included a debate on matters pertaining to Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif.

“Army chief termed matters against the PML-N leaders as legal affairs and said that courts should decide on them,” he said while quoting the army chief and further added that such meetings are held in "secret".

The PML-N stalwart said he had a 40-year-old relationship with Gen Qamar. “I met him during the wedding ceremony of Asad Umar’s son, where the army chief asked me to meet him in Islamabad,” he said.

Maryam Nawaz, last week, had said that she was not aware of any dinner at the GHQ and that no representatives of Nawaz Sharif had met the military leadership.

“Perhaps it wasn’t dinner. What I’ve heard is that the meeting was convened to discuss the Gilgit-Baltistan [election] issue," Maryam responded to a reporter outside the Islamabad High Court, where she had a hearing of her appeal against her conviction in the Avenfield property reference.

“It is a political issue… an issue of people's representatives… and it’s for them to solve with consultation and deliberation. Such decisions should be taken in parliament, not in GHQ,” Maryam had said.

Senior Journalist Hamid Mir also discussed the issue during his televesion talk show.

(With input from DNA)