Hashmi ‘sold’ himself short: Capt. Safdar

Nawaz's son-in-law accuses former PML-N stalwart of striking a Rs5m deal with Imran Khan’s PTI.


Iftikhar Firdous December 26, 2011

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Captain (retd) Safdar has accused Javed Hashmi of having sold himself to PTI Chief Imran Khan for five million rupees.

“If he had mentioned this before, we could have collected Rs10 million for him in alms from Peshawar alone,” Safdar, who is the president of PML-N’s youth wing and the son-in-law of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, told a gathering in Danishabad, Peshawar, on Monday.

Hashmi, a long-time PML-N loyalist, defected to the PTI last week boosting that party’s line-up for the 2013 elections. Addressing the December 25 rally in Karachi, Hashmi said that he missed his old party but believed in the potential of PTI and hence joined it.

“Hashmi’s withdrawal from the party would have been a loss if he were capable of winning his seat again,” Safdar said. “PML-N workers did not shed tears at his departure but at his disloyalty.”

Countering Hashmi’s claim that PTI was the harbinger of change in Pakistan, he said that it was in fact Nawaz who had transformed Pakistan by making it into a nuclear power.

The gathering was also attended by Pir Sabir Shah, PML-N’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa president, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Fareed Toofan and other prominent members of the party.

COMMENTS (68)

Tariq | 12 years ago | Reply

From protocal officer to politician, no wonder he thinks Hashmi could have played his cards better.

MAD | 12 years ago | Reply

@Me myself and I:

i hear he was a protocol officer for the family. and than what happenned happenned and the captain suddenly became a politician.

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