Zehri, Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman and other CEC members.
The CEC meeting discussed various matters relating to party’s organisation and challenges being faced by the party and its leadership following Panama Papers issue, reaffirmed that Nawaz Sharif is most popular leader of the country.
Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan, in a press conference after the meeting, said that among other matters, the meeting discussed the negative impact of the Panama Papers case decision on the national economy and ways to neutralise that impact.
Mushahidullah said that Nawaz Sharif was of the view that political forces should remain in contact with each other, adding the PML-N would also contact the PPP leadership. He said the party has also decided to issue a show-cause notice to former prime minister Zafarullah Jamali and Raza Hayat Hiraj for violation of party discipline.
He said that during a meeting Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Javed Hashmi held frank discussion but issue of Hashmi re-joining the party was not discussed. He told a questioner that the PML-N did not want to confront any institution but the nation should decide as to who was confronting with whom.
Online adds: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said a PML-N figure was behind expulsion of Javed Hashmi from the party. Khursheed Shah said return of Javed Hashmi to PML-N is a good step because he had advised Javed Hashmi not to quit PML-N when he was leaving the party. “But a PML-N figure was behind forcing him to flee from the party.
That figure stands sidelined now a days. But it is a fact that Javed Hashmi was the senior most person in party after Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif. It will take time to seek a status by Javed Hashmi in PML-N,” he said this during an informal talk with the journalists.
The opposition leader said Nawaz Sharif has been disqualified and now we will have to trust the court in respect of the cases pertaining to Imran Khan and Jahangir Tareen.