Has Nawaz parted ways with Nisar?

ISLAMABAD: The newly named PML-N Quaid for life-time Nawaz Sharif has apparently taken the decision to keep former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan away from the party’s working.

The PML-N sources said that Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was not invited for Tuesday’s Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting, which was held in Lahore, because he had decided to part ways with his old party friend for not supporting his narrative followinghis disqualification as prime minister on July 28, last year.

The former interior minister had time and again spoken against his party’s policy of criticising the judiciary. Nisar being the most senior leader in the PML-N had also categorically stated that he would not work under the leadership of Maryam Nawaz. “I was asked if I am ready to work under Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif, I said yes about both, but said no about Maryam Nawaz,” he said.

Chaudhry Nisar has also been in confrontation with the Nawaz Sharif’s close aide former information minister Pervaiz Rashid who was deprived of his ministry on DawnLeaks issue. The PML-N sources said that some senior party leaders also made failed attempts to convince Nawaz Sharif to give his consent to invite Chaudhry Nisar at the CWC meeting.

Meanwhile, Maryam Nawaz, daughter of Nawaz Sharif, rejected speculations on the association of Chaudhry Nisar with the PML-N. In a Twitter message, she said, “The statement on media being attributed to MNS, about Chaudhry Nisar sb, is absolutely false.”