Daily Times

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Prime Minister’s Office.

Members of the federal cabinet and other officials were also present in the meeting. The meeting was given briefing on the Indian aggression along the Line of Control (LoC). Prevailing security situation of the country was also discussed, media reports said.

The meeting took place a day after Nawaz Sharif’s onslaught against a ‘parallel state’ in Pakistan while speaking at an all-parties conference of opposition parties in Islamabad via video link. The PML-N supremo had said the opposition’s struggle was not against Imran Khan ‘but against those who had imposed such an incapable person on the country through a rigged election’.

PM Imran, earlier in the day, took a jibe at his convicted predecessor, saying that ‘once again a fugitive sitting in London is maligning the state institutions’. His cabinet members, in a news conference, also lashed out at opposition leaders particularly the deposed prime minister, accusing him of making state institutions controversial. Planning Minister Asad Umar, Information Minister Shibli Faraz, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry addressed the joint press conference in Islamabad.

Nawaz Sharif, who has been handed a seven-year jail term on charges of financial corruption, was allowed by the government and court to travel to London for treatment of some undiagnosed ailment late last year. But now he has refused to return and a court has declared him a proclaimed offender.