LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has barred party leaders from meeting the military leadership and agencies.

The directive issued by Ahsan Iqbal on the directions of the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the party leaders have been asked to refrain from holding meetings with the military leadership.

According to a circular issued on Tuesday, PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said, “If, however, such meeting is necessary in the interest of national security and/ or fulfillment of constitutional responsibilities then it shall be done indiscreetly and with the prior permission of the party Quaid.”

He said that the party was fighting the battle for the survival of Pakistan, adding that our stance is based solely on National interests for constitutional supremacy in the country and remains above political and personal concerns.

Meeting with the military leadership on issues of national interests will also be held after the permission of the party leadership, the letter read.

The letter further states that PML-N is fighting for the supremacy of the constitution in the country.

“While the Quaid notes with great pleasure the overwhelming response from the party cadres and of course the public to his narrative as expressed in his address to the APC, he expects strong and unwavering support from the party leadership at a time when country is passing through a defining democratic crisis,” Ahsan Iqbal said.

It is pertinent to be noted here that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif and former foreign minister Khawaja Asif were in attendance in a meeting of parliamentary leaders who met the COAS.

Last week, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz had said that no representative of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif met the Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

In an informal media talk, Maryam Nawaz had said that her ailing father cannot be operated until coronavirus pandemic ends. NNI