Bajwa says 'not responsible' for Nawaz's disqualification.

ISLAMABAD -- Former army chief General (retd) Qamar Bajwa has revealed, in a reported interview with a local media outlet, that he was not responsible for the disqualification of former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.

Bajwa was asked if he was responsible for disqualifying Nawaz when his case was heard by the Supreme Court. He replied that the apex court had begun hearings on the Panama Papers during PTI's second long march before he became the army chief.

He maintained that the army could not influence everything and that the SC itself was doing 'a lot of things'.

The former army chief was then asked if former ISI chief General Faiz Hameed could pull off the feat by himself, to which the ex-COAS stated that 'when you are asking someone to do eight things, and if he does ten, you cannot ask him'. He added that the phenomenon occurred all over the world with intelligence agencies doing many things of their own free will.

The interviewer again questioned if Bajwa disqualified Nawaz, and his answer remained the same.

'It was the decision of the five judges of the Supreme Court. When the judges give an order, what can you do? Justice Khosa also had a personal enmity with the Sharif family. Shahbaz Sharif divorced Justice Khosa's sister in the nineties,' claimed the former army chief in the interview..

He questioned how he could disqualify Nawaz when the PML-N leader was responsible for making him the army chief. He added that Nawaz was always 'good and decent' with him and that the army had 'nothing to do with Nawaz Sharif's disqualification'.

Bajwa said that the SC had assigned the task of bringing evidence to the army, therefore the evidence was provided by the army. He said that General (retd) Asim Munir had good relations with Arab countries, and was sent by him to the UAE and brought back the iqama which became the basis of Nawaz's disqualification.

The interviewer then asked...

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