RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan held a meeting with Army Chief General Raheel Sharif here on Monday.

According to sources, they remained with the Chief of the Army Staff for about an hour and discussed with him the prevailing political situation against the backdrop of the sit-ins by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and the Pakistan Awami Tehrik in Islamabad.

They informed Gen Sharif about the moves taken by the government to defuse the crisis.

Talking to reporters the interior minister tried to downplay the meeting and said it was a ‘routine meeting’.

Shahbaz Sharif and Chaudhry Nisar also met with the army chief on Wednesday — a day before the PTI and the PAT launched their marches from Lahore.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2014

Opinion

Editorial

Strange claim
Updated 21 Dec, 2024

Strange claim

In all likelihood, Pakistan and US will continue to be ‘frenemies'.
Media strangulation
Updated 21 Dec, 2024

Media strangulation

Administration must decide whether it wishes to be remembered as an enabler or an executioner of press freedom.
Israeli rampage
21 Dec, 2024

Israeli rampage

ALONG with the genocide in Gaza, Israel has embarked on a regional rampage, attacking Arab and Muslim states with...
Tax amendments
Updated 20 Dec, 2024

Tax amendments

Bureaucracy gimmicks have not produced results, will not do so in the future.
Cricket breakthrough
20 Dec, 2024

Cricket breakthrough

IT had been made clear to Pakistan that a Champions Trophy without India was not even a distant possibility, even if...
Troubled waters
20 Dec, 2024

Troubled waters

LURCHING from one crisis to the next, the Pakistani state has been consistent in failing its vulnerable citizens....