Chaudhry Nisar won’t leave PML-N: Javed Hashmi

MULTAN: Veteran politician Javed Hashmi has claimed his experience tells him Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar will not leave the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

Addressing the media in Multan on Sunday, Hashmi, a former PML-N leader himself, said Nisar should not leave the party but instead resign from his ministry.

Terming Nisar an asset of his party, he said the minister knows how to maneuver diplomatically amid political circles.

Hashmi said Nisar is a reasonable and practical person, who does not want state institutions t o clash.

“Institutions should not interfere in politics,” he said further.

The minister is expected to address a press conference today after reports stated last week that he had developed serious differences with the party leadership over the handling of the Panama Papers case.

PML-N efforts to appease Chaudhry Nisar fail

Chaudhry Nisar is expected to announce his separation from Nawaz Sharif during a news conference on Sunday

Sources said the minister may resign from his post as the country’s top civilian security czar and/or the party.

Nisar skipped a crucial PML-N Parliamentary party meeting last week whereas in the cabinet meeting a day prior to that, he reported lectured the participants for nearly an hour on their mishandling of the Panama Papers case.

Hashmi was a senior PML-N member and close associate of Nawaz Sharif when he jumped ship to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in December 2011.

However, the veteran politician parted ways with his new party in protest against Imran Khan’s ‘anti-democratic handling’ of the 2014 protest ‘sit-in’ against the government.