Image Source : AP Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had supported and funded ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani diplomat who additionally served as a minister within the PML-N supremo’s cabinet has alleged. “Yes, he (Osama) supported Mian Nawaz Sharif at one time. However, that is a complicated story. He (Osama) used to extend financial assistance (to Sharif),” Pakistan’s former envoy to the United States Abida Hussain claimed this throughout an interview to a personal information channel, Geo TV reported.
Hussain, 73, additionally an ex-cabinet member of the Sharif authorities, recalled that at one-time bin Laden was common and appreciated by everybody together with the Americans however at a later stage, he was handled as a stranger, the channel stated.
She was apparently referring to the Soviet–Afghan War in Eighties throughout which bin Laden was preventing in opposition to the Soviet forces in Afghanistan alongside rebel teams – generally known as the Mujahideen.
Bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan’s Abbottabad in May, 2011.
Last week, a lawmaker from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Party alleged that Sharif took USD 10 million from bin Laden to carry a no-confidence movement for overthrowing Benazir Bhutto’s authorities.
Referring to a ebook written by late premier Bhutto, Farrukh Habib stated Sharif’s daughter and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice president Maryam Nawaz ought to learn the ebook.
“It is written on page 201 that her father Nawaz Sharif laid the foundation of foreign funding in the country and used USD 10 million from Osama bin Laden to bring a no-confidence motion to overthrow Benazir’s government,” he claimed on Thursday.
Sharif, 70, has been residing in London since November 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go overseas for 4 weeks for therapy.
The three-time former prime minister, who was convicted in two corruption instances — Avenfield properties and Al-Azizia — was declared a proclaimed offender in December by the Islamabad High Court after he failed to look earlier than it regardless of a number of warnings.
Sharif resigned as Pakistan prime minister in 2017 after the Supreme Court disqualified him from holding public workplace and dominated that graft instances be filed in opposition to the beleaguered chief over the Panama Papers scandal.
Hussain, who served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US between November 1919-April 1993, stated she was appointed as an envoy in the course of the first premiership of Sharif after she misplaced the election.
During her stint as an envoy to the US, she stated that the majority of her communication was once with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who had tasked her to maintain the Americans engaged in talks until Pakistan completes its nuclear program in 18 months.
The US administration together with the diplomats, senators, and congressmen used to advise Pakistan in opposition to the execution of the nuclear program, she stated.
Since the nuclear program was beneath the purview of the president, she stated most of her conversations was once with him, and never the prime minister.
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