{"id":17939,"date":"2023-10-25T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/dar-expects-nawaz-zardari-meeting-in-the-near-future\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:13:12","slug":"dar-expects-nawaz-zardari-meeting-in-the-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/dar-expects-nawaz-zardari-meeting-in-the-near-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Dar expects Nawaz-Zardari meeting in the near future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Senior PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said he expected a meeting between party supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari would \u201chopefully\u201d take place, after weeks of enduring withering criticism from the PPP.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on <em>Dawn News<\/em> show <em>Live with Adil Shahzeb<\/em>, the senator was questioned about mounting criticism from the PPP ahead of Nawaz\u2019s return and on whether there was a possibility of a meeting between the party heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no restriction on a meeting; it should happen and will hopefully take place in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dar said Nawaz was busy with his legal issues after returning to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>On criticism from the PPP, he said the PML-N had had a \u201cvery good working relationship\u201d with the party. Dar added he felt it \u201cinappropriate\u201d to respond to critical statements from PPP leaders since the two parties had a relationship which would continue into the future.<\/p>\n<p>He said he personally wished that all major political parties should be part of the process to take the country forward.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"&quot;Nawaz Sharif Does Not Have a Sick Mentality&quot; | Live With Adil Shahzeb | Dawn News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-C4FSV12iKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Dar\u2019s comments come on the heels of the PPP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1783531\">taking exception<\/a> to the decision of the Punjab caretaker government to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1783492\/nawazs-legal-hurdles-fall-like-dominoes\">suspend Nawaz\u2019s sentence<\/a> in the Al-Azizia reference and terming it a transgression on the part of the provincial administration.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP had claimed the suspension of the sentence was a \u201ccrude manner\u201d to provide relief to the former prime minister. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you lock up the courtrooms if decisions [on conviction] are to be taken in this manner?\u201d Punjab PPP General Secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza had said.<\/p>\n<p>He had called Nawaz a \u2018ladla-plus\u2019 and said the caretakers were doing everything except holding general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Asserting that suspending Nawaz\u2019s sentence was not in the ambit of the caretaker government, Murtaza had urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of the act which \u201cwas tantamount to ensuring a favour\u201d for the PML-N leader in the upcoming polls.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a bid to bring the political temperature down and focus on securing relief for Nawaz in graft cases, the PML-N has decided to re-establish \u201cclose coordination\u201d with its allies in the former coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>This decision was made during a meeting at Jati Umra on Sunday, also attended by legal experts in addition to the Sharif family members. Sources had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1783002\/with-nawaz-back-at-the-helm-n-looks-to-placate-allies\">told<\/a> <em>Dawn<\/em> that Nawaz would approach the PPP, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazl, and other parties of the \u2018defunct\u2019 Pakistan Democratic Movement this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, Mr Sharif will phone former president Asif Ali Zardari, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Akhtar Mengal and others to thank them for their moral support throughout his ordeal, before seeking separate meetings with them,\u201d they had said.<\/p>\n<p>The sources had said that the PML-N would avoid a confrontation with the PPP by not responding to the latter\u2019s scathing criticism of the relief given to the PML-N supremo by the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Of late, PPP has been complaining about a lack of a level playing field ahead of polls likely in January next year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said he expected a meeting between party supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari would \u201chopefully\u201d take place, after weeks of enduring withering criticism from the PPP. Speaking in an interview on Dawn News show Live with Adil Shahzeb, the senator was questioned about mounting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/252338199089fac.jpg?r=000921","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}