Nawaz wanted to remove ex-CJP Saqib Nisar

 ISLAMABAD: The PML-N authorities turned into prepared to eliminate the then Chief Justice Saqib Nisar after Nawaz Sharif’s elimination and disqualification however the choice changed into aborted on the eleventh hour.

The draft reference for the Supreme Judicial Council became prepared for the duration of the tenure of the previous government. It changed into despatched to the then Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who even took it to the then president. But it turned into later decided to kill the inspiration.

Only some inside the PML-N government knew about the plan despite the fact that, sources say, CJP Saqib Nisar had got a hint of what became cooking in opposition to him.

later spoke to Nawaz Sharif and satisfied him to drop the concept.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi changed into no longer satisfied of the wisdom of the action and neither became the then Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf. The plan turned into stunning for the president as nicely, as he become also not willing to provoke Supreme Judicial Council proceedings against Saqib Nisar.

Ausaf, when approached by means of The News, showed the tale and stated that Mian Nawaz Sharif were faulty through some elements inside the PML-N government. He did now not name those factors but stated that the selection become changed after he expressed his reservations to the then Prime Minister Abbasi.

Ausaf said that it became both the cease of 2017 or early 2018 when he was referred to as through Prime Minister Abbasi to his workplace. When he met the top-rated, he recalled, Abbasi shared with him a replica of the draft reference against the chief justice and invited him to read it.

He stated that he opted no longer to examine it and suggested the high minister no longer to move the reference. The choicest, he said, agreed with him after hearing his factor of view.

Ashtar Ausaf stated that he defined to the top minister that this kind of reference could not be entertained because of the apex courtroom’s selections and thanks to the fact that the Supreme Judicial Council is headed by means of the Chief Justice of Pakistan himself and could not be led via anybody else.

Apart from the felony hindrances, Ausaf said that he had also told the prime minister that during case the authorities determined to report the presidential reference in opposition to the Chief Justice of Pakistan the move could no longer be welcomed by using political and criminal circles and might motive extraordinary embarrassment to the government and the PML-N.

Ausaf stated that he had also requested the gold standard if folks who had drafted the reference would stand in the witness field to press and show the allegations levelled towards the CJP. Being the attorney fashionable, he became the one who would need to lead the prosecution.

Ashtar Ausaf said that the prime minister agreed along with his perspectives. Subsequently, the reference turned into by no means moved and turned into killed without making it part of the reliable document.

Credible resources say that Mian Nawaz Sharif turned into counseled by means of a few Leaguers, inclusive of a minister, to get Saqib Nisar eliminated by way of shifting a connection with the SJC in opposition to the CJP. Nawaz Sharif changed into given the influence that in case the reference become moved against Nisar, someone critical inside the then SJC would be helpful in getting the CJP sacked.