Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif where issues related to national security were discuss...

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif where issues related to national security were discussed.

 

The meeting discussed professional security issues - Photo: Prime Minister Office

A statement from the Prime Minister Office said, "Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif today.

 

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"Professional issues related to national security were discussed during the meeting," the statement said.

It may be recalled that this is the first time that Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has been meeting Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif since he took over as the Prime Minister.

Earlier, the Army Chief had not attended the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who was said to have been absent due to ill health.

Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar had said during a press briefing last week that he was not feeling well that day, he had not even come to the office, there was no other reason for it.

Maj. Gen. Babar Iftikhar, in response to a question on civil-military relations, said that the word "neutral" may not accurately define the position of the military and its institutions. Does not give

He had said that in the last 74 years, all the political parties have been demanding from the army that the army has nothing to do with politics, now we have put it into practice.

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He had said that Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had also told the political leadership that we want to keep ourselves away from politics. I have never visited anyone so why do you come to see me again and again.

He said that earlier in a meeting on Gilgit-Baltistan this had happened in the presence of all political leaders and if someone had said that you interfere in politics then the Army Chief had said that we are far from politics. Don't drag us further into it.

DG ISPR had said that we have nothing to do with politics. In the last by-election, no one accused the army of interfering. In the local body elections, no one accused. They used to say that calls used to come or phone calls used to come, today someone is saying, this is a very good decision and it will continue to be so.