Sharif meets Nisar after conclave with COAS:
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday, his second meeting with the PM in as many days.
Sources in the interior ministry
said the minister discussed key matters of national security and the
prevailing political situation with the prime minister.
They said the minister
PM Office says Secretary Fawad Hasan Fawad hasn’t applied for leave
Private TV channels reported the interior minister had
discussed the draft of a notification, to be issued by the ministry in
line with the recommendations of the inquiry committee set up to
investigate the publication of a report in Dawn in October last year
regarding a high-level security meeting.
The prime
minister had asked Chaudhry Nisar to issue a notification on the
findings of the inquiry committee so that the concerns of different
stakeholders, notably the armed forces, could be addressed.
On April 29, when the PM’s Office released a notification detailing actions to be taken in the wake of the report,
ISPR chief Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor tweeted that the military “rejected”
the notification since it was not in line with the recommendations of
the inquiry committee.
Political experts attach great significance to Saturday’s meeting, which came within 48 hours of the prime minister’s interaction with Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.
On
Friday night, nearly every news channel reported that a meeting between
the army chief and the prime minister was held on Thursday night in a
“pleasant atmosphere” and issues relating to the Dawn report, border
tensions and the security situation came under discussion.
Neither the Prime Minister’s Office nor the ISPR chief issued any statements or tweets to confirm or deny the meeting.
Meanwhile,
a statement issued by the PM Office termed the news regarding the leave
application of Secretary to PM Fawad Hasan Fawad “baseless”. It said he
had not applied for leave.
had also met the PM on Friday to brief him on the incident of unprovoked firing by Afghan border security forces on Pakistani citizens near the Chaman border, which claimed 12 lives.
There
was no official word regarding the two meetings and neither the Prime
Minister’s Office, nor the interior ministry issued any statements.
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