Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Nawaz) has rejected the impression that its exiled leader Mian Nawaz Sharif ever met al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and had any political deal with the terror mastermind.
"He (Nawaz) never had any contact with Osama or his al Qaeda," a spokesperson for the former premier told media a day after Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed revealed that bin Laden had offered to buy loyalties of legislators to raise Nawaz Sharif as prime minister.
Qazi made this disclosure in an interview that was published in local press and a news channel telecast its excerpts on Saturday,
PML-N Central Information Secretary Siddiqul Farooq said seeing Sharif as the prime minister of Pakistan might have been Osama's personal aspiration.
As regard the meeting between Nawaz Sharif and Osama was concerned, it was absolutely wrong and aimed at defaming the genuine leader, Farooq said. "Nawaz Sharif neither was dependent on any foreign assistance nor he is. Allah, the Almighty, has blessed him a lot," he added.
Siddiqul Farooq said "If Osama wanted to use Qazi Hussain Ahmed as broker for buying votes for Nawaz, the MMA leader himself made it clear that he had refused Osama bin Laden for serving the purpose."
He said the time Qazi referred to Osama was the blue-eyed of the US, its spy agencies, government of Pakistan, ISI, Afghan freedom fighters, Jamaat-i-Islami and several other Pakistani religious parties. At that time all these forces were together fighting to rid Afghanistan from Russian occupation, he said.
Farooq added it was far later when the US worsened its relations with Osama on Afghanistan and the two sides became neck to neck. "But Nawaz Sharif had remained at distance from all these developments," he clarified.
The PML-N information secretary said Mian Nawaz Sharif's politics was to serve people and he spent his 23 years of political life to protect public interest.
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