Govt incapable of running state, says Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that the incumbent government is incapable of handling the affairs of the state, sources told Geo News.

Nawaz said this while chairing a high-level meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership, along with party president Shehbaz Sharif, at the Parliament House today.

The biggest challenge faced by the country is the economic crisis and the government has destroyed the economy in its first 100 days, sources quoted Nawaz as saying.

Senior party leadership was briefed over party matters and political developments in the high-level session.

The meeting was chaired by PML-N leaders Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif, and attended by the senior leadership of the party from all over the country, including former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Rana Sanaullah, Ayaz Sadiq and Iqbal Zafar Jhagra.

The senior party high command discussed opposition's share in the standing committees, Khawaja Saad Rafique's production order and National Accountability Bureau's actions against the party leaders.

Conversing with party leaders, Nawaz said NAB has been exposed before the public.

Member National Assembly Ahsan Iqbal briefed and presented his recommendations to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif over the party's affairs.

Iqbal, the former interior minister, has been given the responsibility to increase party membership.

Opposition decides to not take chairmanship of 'unimportant' committees 

Meanwhile, the opposition parties have refused to take the chairmanship of relatively unimportant standing committees and have demanded interior, foreign affairs, and finance from the treasury benches.

The government and opposition reached a formula for the chairmanship of the standing committees according to the seat share, under which the treasury benches would get 20 while the opposition will get the chairmanship of 19.

The opposition has reached consensus over not taking the chairmanship of Statistics, Climate Change, Science and Technology.