General Qamar Javed Bajwa attended the meeting to decide on the IAF pilot, said a PML-N leader (file)
Islamabad:
Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa “legs were shaking” as Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a meeting of parliamentary leaders that India was about to attack his country, a Pakistani lawmaker said. recounting the events of the February 2019 meeting during which the Imran Khan government decided to release the Indian Air Force pilot wing commander Abhinandan Varthaman.
In a speech to the National Assembly, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), Ayaz Sadiq, said that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had signaled at a major meeting that if Pakistan did not liberate to wing commander Varthaman, India would attack Pakistan “that night before 9 pm”.
The PML-N leader told opposition leaders that Qureshi, in a meeting with parliamentary leaders, including the PPP and PML-N and the army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, had asked to be left in freedom to wing commander Varthaman.
“I remember that Shah Mahmood Qureshi was at the meeting that Imran Khan had refused to attend and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Bajwa, entered the room, his legs were shaking and he was sweating. The Foreign Minister He said, for the love of God, to let Abhinandan, India go about to attack Pakistan at 9 pm, “Sadiq recounted the events of the meeting.
Dunya News quoted Mr. Sadiq as saying that the opposition supported the government on all matters, including wing commander Varthaman, but could not support him any more.
Wing Commander Varthaman’s fighter jet was shot down while chasing a Pakistani fighter jet during a dogfight, a day after India launched an airstrike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp, which claimed an attack. suicide against a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 soldiers. A Pakistani F-16 was also shot down.
Wing Commander Varthaman returned to India across the Attari-Wagah border on March 1, 2019. President Ram Nath Kovind awarded him the Vir Chakra on Independence Day for his exemplary bravery.
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