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No One Knows What is Cooking in Saudi Arabia: Zardari

Lahore (Janauary 01, 2018): Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Monday commenting on the Sharif brothers’ visit to Saudi Arabia said that an agreement might be “cooking” in the country.

Talking to Media in Lahore, Former President and PPP Co Chairman Asif Ali Zardari said that there are numerous rumours about purpose of visit of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia and he is not sure what is happening.

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“No one knows what is cooking. There are a couple of rumours surrounding their visits to Saudi Arabia,”

Rumour mill has it that the motive behind the visits could be to negotiate a deal or to save their assets, Zardari added.

The former president, however, added that “we respect Saudi Arabia, it is our brotherly state” but added that Pakistan shouldn’t take directives from them.

“At least our government did not,” he said.

There are news about an attempt to enact National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Zardari said that it was a dictatorial rule when the last NRO was enacted.While talking about an anti-corruption narrative in Pakistan, Zardari said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) invariably victimised Sindh province.

PPP co-chairman also talked about former dictator Pervez Musharraf and dared him to return to Pakistan and face the courts in legal cases lodged against him.

Earlier today PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan claimed that former premier Nawaz Sharif and brother Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif are undergoing a “conflict”, explaining that Nawaz is fearful of the latter meeting with senior Saudi officials.

Talking to the media here, the PPP leader said that Nawaz did not go to Saudi Arabia on the Kingdom’s invitation.

He said that the Sharif brothers will not be able to get positive results from their saudi trip. He said that it will not get yeild for them.

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“Shehbaz must have called him, and told him he was meeting senior [Saudi] officials. So Nawaz panicked and travelled to Saudi Arabia,” the PPP leader conjectured.

Commenting on PPP’s participation in the recently held Tahirul Qadri-led All Parties Conference, Ahsan said that the party has not entered into a political alliance with Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek and only attended the moot to express solidarity with the 2014 Model Town incident victims.

The Sharif brothers’ multiple visits to Saudi Arabia have resulted in criticism by opposition parties. PPP and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have questioned the reasons behind the visit.Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah last week, on being asked about Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Saudi Arabia, said that it would be worrisome if this visit was aimed at resolving internal matters of the country. “Pakistan is a nuclear country and should have its own policies and rule of rule. We do not need to knock on anyone else’s door.”

However, PML-N leaders have refuted the allegations, saying that Nawaz has had longstanding ties with the Saudis.Yesterday, Nawaz’s spokesman condemned as “baseless” reports that the PML-N chied he is in contact with Saudi Arabia to escape accountability, and said Nawaz accepted court verdicts and is facing cases.

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