Daily Times

SUKKUR: Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) Khurshid Shah said on Saturday that the government should brief Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on the prevailing economic situation of the country to remove his reservations.

Talking to media, Khursheed Shah said that everyone, from a common man to the army chief, had the right to comment on economy taking an opposite position to the interior minister’s statement that the Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) should refrain from commenting on the country’s economy.

“There is nothing wrong with the army chief commenting on the state of the economy since he is the commander-in-chief. A weakened economy means a weakened army,” he said.

Commenting on the scuffle outside accountability court ahead of the indictment of the Sharifs, Shah said that the incident “should open the eyes of every Pakistan as to where we are going as a nation.” “The Pakistan People’s Party is working to ensure that the different institutions of the country are not at loggerheads,” he said.

He advised the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and other politicians to do the same. He said that clashes between departments and institutions were dangerous for the country as weak institutions were not beneficial for the country.

Published in Daily Times, October 15^th 2017.