ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has again said that he would leave the party if Maryam awarded the party’s presidency.
In a televised interview, Abbasi stated that Nawaz Sharif is his leader and that he will consider leaving if Maryam Nawaz is elevated to the party’s top position.
“I was named the senior vice president of the PML-N when Shehbaz Sharif was arrested in year 2019,” Shahid Khaqan said. “When Maryam was given the leadership position and elevated to the Chief Organizer’s position, I had tendered my resignation at that time from the party office to the PML-N president,” he said. “I could not work further on the party’s office, I told.”
“Tolerance is a two-way process, not a one-sided process,” a former prime minister once declared “I resigned from my party position to avoid potential conflict with Maryam Nawaz.”
Shahid Khaqan stated, “I have been friends with Nawaz Sharif for a very long time. He is my leader, and this relationship could not be tied with Maryam. I’m her uncle, and Benazir Bhutto likewise forbade her uncles from attending parties.”
Replying a question he said, he will consider remaining in the party or not when Maryam Nawaz will be elevated to the president’s office of the PML-N.
Responding a question to join another party with a straightforward ‘No’ he said if he had to quit the PML-N he will return to his home as “I have no other home except it”.
It is pertinent to mention here that Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a party stalwart, had not attended the PML-N workers convention, recently held in Islamabad.
