ISLAMABAD: A new crisis is brewing within the ranks of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after the issuance of a show-cause notice to senior leader Javed Latif who has vowed to respond to the notice with full details.
PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has issued a show-cause notice to Javed Latif asking him why he had castigated remarks against party president Shahbaz Sharif and Khwaja Mohammad Asif.
Latif is a Sharif loyalist and is considered very close to Maryam Nawaz while Khwaja Asif is very close to Shehbaz Sharif.
The notice said that a clarification should be made within 7 days as to why disciplinary action should not be taken against Mian Javed Latif.
According to party sources, Javed Latif will give a full answer to the show cause. In his reply, Javed Latif will quote the statements of Khwaja Asif and Rana Tanveer to support his statement.
The sources said Latif would further say that he could even tender resignation if Nawaz Sharif would ask him to do so.
It may be recalled that after the interview of Javed Latif three days ago, differences between the Sharif brothers were exposed to the public. Javed Latif in a TV interview had blamed Shahbaz Sharif for trying to work for reconciliation with the establishment. He had referred to Khwaja Asif to promote the politics of personalities in PML-N.
Due to this interview, Shahbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz got angry and both did not attend an important meeting of PML-N for the reorganisation of the party.
Party president Shahbaz Sharif had requested Nawaz Sharif to issue a show-cause notice to Javed Latif over the controversial interview. “Shahbaz Sharif said that Javed Latif should be questioned and action should be taken against him. However, Nawaz Sharif has said that notices should not be issued yet. Shahbaz Sharif has recorded a protest over it,” the sources said.
While other leaders have also requested action against Latif.
During the interview, Latif had said that some people in PML-N are working on assignments and these four or five people get assignments to distort the party’s statement.
“Whenever the movement reaches a decisive stage, one of the leaders gets up and says something new. These are the same people with assignments who talk about reconciliation,” Latif had said.
He refrained from naming these leaders and said that assignments are given to these leaders only by those who do not believe in the constitution and law.
Latif further said that when a senior politician damages its narrative, it is not possible without assignment and the assignees should learn a lesson from the fate of Chaudhry Nisar.
Latif also mentioned that when Nawaz Sharif decides, the party president will be in trouble. He claimed that Nawaz Sharif is returning to Pakistan to serve his jail term.
