Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the National Security Committee meeting to deliberate security situation in the country, the sources privy to the development said on Thursday.
The sources said that the meeting would be held on Friday (tomorrow) at Prime Minister office. Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and other military leaders would take part in the meeting. The meeting would discuss the security situation of the country and would make decisions in this regard.
The development took place a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan issued election schedule for Punjab and fixed the date as May 14 in compliance of the Supreme Court verdict.
The government insisted that the elections, as ordered by the top court three-member bench, would worsen the political and constitutional crisis in the country.
The federal cabinet had earlier rejected the SC verdict and decided to get its ratification from the parliament.
Chairing the coalition partners’ meeting in the Prime Minister office on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister said that the Supreme Court rejected the plea of the government seeking formation of full court for hearing of the election delay case. He said the lawyers of political parties and bar councils’ arguments were also not heard by the bench.
“We will file another resolution in the National Assembly about the Supreme Court’s verdict,” said PM Sharif, regretting that he never saw such situation ever before in his political career.
The sources said that Maulana Fazlur Rehman asked the government to take strong stance in the prevailing political situation.
Nawaz Sharif, the PML-N Supremo, however, insisted that a reference should be filed against the SC three-member bench for its ruling on the elections.
Besides it, Maryam Nawaz, the PML-N senior vice-president, came down hard upon the top court, especially the chief justice of Pakistan. She repeatedly addressed CJP Bandial in her address in the lawyers’ convention in Rawalpindi.
Maryam categorically said that nothing would move in Pakistan on the saying of this person [Imran Khan].
“Do whatever you want as nothing will be move in the country on the wish of this person [Imran Khan]. Constitutional says elections will be held on time, we also say elections will be held on time, and I say elections will be on time but not before time,” she added.
