Local media has claimed that a PML-N leader from Lahore left the party after taking a fresh stand against Nawaz Sharif's establishment and said that it was the PML-N leader who appointed party leaders a few months ago during his tenure as Army Chief Voting for the extension was allowed and now took a different position. Sources said that the leader who parted ways with the party was former Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique. It may be recalled that after his release from jail, he had a meeting with Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi during which Pervez Elahi also congratulated him on his release.
According to the English magazine The News, on condition of anonymity, a PML-N leader said that most of the party leaders do not support Nawaz Sharif's anti-establishment stance. Many party leaders were shocked when they saw him. That his party leaders are naming the current military leadership at the Gujranwala rally.
The Lahore-based leader, who holds key positions in the PML-N, said, "At one point you asked us in Parliament to vote for him (to extend the tenure of the Army Chief). Now we have to take a different non-conciliatory line." That being said, the historian will not question us on this. He said that let's see what the result of this change is, if one thinks that the revolution is coming then he is wrong. He further said that PML-N alone could not do anything but something different could be done from PDM's platform.
Sources have claimed that Khawaja Saad Rafique has also parted ways with the party. He is also not happy with the party leadership. Apart from the statement, he is also not happy with the fact that he and his brother were in jail. The leadership did nothing for him. He revealed that "I have recently distanced myself from active politics, we have to see what happens next", adding that he was a PDM member in Lahore. No preparations are being made to make the meeting a success. The old people of the party are critical of the new statement so that the new generation of leadership can see hope and a better future from this statement.
Meanwhile, League sources in the UK denied any differences within the party and one of them said that there was no future for anyone outside the party led by Nawaz Sharif. Has no future. He also admitted that at a meeting of the Central Workers Committee, Nawaz Sharif had suggested to the party leaders that they could leave the party if they could not meet his eyes.
