Minister asks ex-AJK president to refrain from defamatory comments about Nawaz.

Byline: Tariq Naqash

MUZAFFARABAD -- A senior member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet on Monday advised a former AJK president and prime minister not to make 'slanderous' statements against the top leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) 'to avoid a tit-for-tat response from PML-N workers'.

Senior Minister Chaudhry Tariq Farooq told reporters at his office that Sardar Sikandar Hayat, also a former central vice president of the PML-N, had made some 'defamatory and derogatory' comments about Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and [AJK Prime Minister] Raja Farooq Haider after formally ending his association with PML-N and rejoining his previous Muslim Conference party on Feb 12.

According to him the PML-N workers were seething at Mr Hayat's 'scurrilous attacks' but were exercising restraint because 'our political training and culture does not allow us to pay the accusers back in their own coin'.

The senior minister maintained that 'since the memory of the octogenarian leader [Mr Hayat] was not serving him well, many of his statements were completely misplaced and...

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