Nawaz Sharif tried to stop 2008 presidential elections says ex-ISI official
Headlines, Local Friday, September 18th, 2009Talking to media persons outside an Anti-Terrorist Court here on Wednesday, former ISI director Khalid Khwaja alleged that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had persistently asked him to use his influence to stop the 2008 presidential election.
Khalid Khwaja was presented in an Anti-Terrorist Court in connection with his alleged involvement in the Lal Masjid case. Maulana Abdul Aziz ‘khateeb’ of Lal Masjid, his wife Umm-e-Hassan, daughter Tayyabba Dua and some 50 students of Jamia Hafsa were also present in court. The court adjourned further hearing of the case till October 15.
Former ISI director Khalid Khwaja said that PML-N Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif asked him to help the party to stop the presidential elections 2008. But he refused to do so and said that he could not do anything in this matter. He claimed that former Supreme Court Chief Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Saddiqui was a witness to this conversation. He said that PML-N leader Siddiq-ul-Farooq was approaching his witness Ali Ahmed Mehr on behalf Nawaz Sharif. They are trying to purchase him but have failed, he said.
He said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had met Osama Bin Laden six times with him in which four meetings were exclusive. I was with Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif at the time of meetings in which Osama offered Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif investment in construction projects in Pakistan, he said. “I challenge PML-N Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to prove me wrong at any platform,” he said.
He said that PML-N wanted to humiliate him and downgrade his reputation as ISI director. He asserted that ISI was the best institution in the country. “I would raise curtain from several other facts very soon,” he said. He also said that he was receiving threats to his life for some days
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