Government standing with Pakistan Army, asserts PM Imran

Dunya News

Government standing with Pakistan Army, asserts PM Imran Khan.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – As the Supreme Court is on Wednesday hearing a case pertaining to the extension in Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure, Prime Minister Imran Khan has asserted that the government is standing with Pakistan Army.

Sources familiar with the matter have informed that the premier conducted a high-level meeting with senior ministers and deliberated on the current situation in the country. Imran Khan stressed that General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure was extended in the light of the existing circumstances.

Let it be known that the top court’s three-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Mian Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah is hearing the case of General Bajwa’s extension on a petition filed by Riaz Hanif Rahi.