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28 May 1998 Youm-e-Takbir e Pakistan | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Reveals inside News
28 May 1998 Youm-e-Takbir e Pakistan | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Reveals inside News
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00:00 Today is 28th May, it is the day of Takbir, you were the MNA of the government in 1998,
00:10 it is a big thing, whenever this day comes, who gets the credit?
00:14 Who do you give the credit to?
00:16 Of course, there are multiple factors, but what is the final decision and we should go for it?
00:20 Whose decision was this?
00:22 The final decision was of Mian Wafeel Sahib.
00:25 And it should have been his, and he did it.
00:27 The rest of the people are talking about something completely wrong.
00:30 I was present at the time, the discussions took place, I am an eyewitness of all of them.
00:36 So, these things are history and we always, the Prime Minister says that he does not work,
00:43 he does not make his decisions, so the decisions that he has made, should be given to the creditor.
00:48 Are you an eyewitness of that telephone call that was being made by the President of the United States,
00:52 Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif Sahib?
00:54 No, I am not an eyewitness of that, but a gentleman who was sitting there,
00:58 there were three people, he told me how Clinton Sahib spoke and how long that meeting lasted.
01:06 And a very serious offer was made to Pakistan, which we did not accept.
01:12 Gauhar Ayub Sahib says that Shahbaz Sharif Sahib came to me and said that he is talking to Clinton,
01:18 if he gives a good package, we will not make a blast.
01:21 Is that correct factually?
01:25 Gauhar Ayub Sahib has passed away, my elders were also there,
01:29 Shahbaz Sahib is alive, they can deny this, but I do not think that such a thing has happened.
01:35 It was not possible, Mian Sahib was very clear from the first day.
01:39 Do you want to answer this?
01:41 Yes, I do not want to answer, this was not a choice for us, we had to make this decision and this decision was of permission.
01:48 There was a discussion when the press was called, what Nizami Sahib said,
01:58 that was also a very wrong observation, he was present at that meeting.
02:03 And I was sitting in the seven chairs with Mian Sahib, Nizami Sahib was sitting in front of me,
02:09 and he spoke very seriously in Punjabi, he said that Mian Sahib was taking advice from everyone,
02:17 that if we say something, we have to do it, if we say something, we will be pressurized,
02:23 we will get benefit if we do not do it, we can do it later, etc.
02:27 There were 20-30 people giving their opinion.
02:29 Nizami Sahib said in Punjabi that Mian Sahib, you will get beaten up,
02:33 this has been a long time since Nizami Sahib is not here, so I can at least say this.
02:37 He had his own way of speaking,
02:41 we were all very worried that he was saying that you will get beaten up,
02:47 he said that you will have to get beaten up, if you do not do this, then the people of Pakistan will beat you up,
02:55 if you do this, then the world will beat you up, so decide whose shoes you have to wear.
03:00 And he said that I think it would be better if the shoes of the people of Pakistan are not worn.
03:05 So you are saying that it was not that Mian Sahib did not want to do anything,
03:10 and Nizami Sahib, which is a famous thing, that Mian Sahib did not want to do anything,
03:13 and Nizami Sahib was saying that do it or you will get beaten up, you are saying that it was not like that.
03:16 And Dr. A.Q. Khan?
03:18 No, no, this was a part of the opinion,
03:21 I have been, especially the matter of that meeting,
03:25 I have never heard from Mian Sahib that we should not do a blast,
03:30 he always had the position that we should do it,
03:32 but he was consulting everyone, he consulted many people.
03:35 Listen to this, Dr. A.Q. Khan, what did Shahid Sahib say about this?
03:40 Nawaz Sharif Sahib made this decision, Dr. Qadir,
03:43 do you think he did this out of fear of public reaction,
03:47 that if he did not do a blast, then what will people say,
03:49 or out of fear of the reaction of the military leadership,
03:52 or since the blasts had happened, he was determined that we have to do this,
03:55 without fear, he made a firm decision.
03:58 No, he did not make a firm decision, we were under pressure,
04:02 and if I say, then I will have to exaggerate,
04:04 that I was under a lot of pressure,
04:06 and if you say that I had a big role in this decision,
04:12 then I will have to send it,
04:14 because later the journalists were called,
04:18 and we tried to sit with them,
04:21 and in the same way, some journalists were prepared,
04:25 and in some way, I do not know, they were on a roll,
04:28 and they said that we do not have to do this,
04:31 we have the power, and we should not do this,
04:34 but Majid Nizami Sahib strongly rejected it,
04:39 and said that we should not do this,
04:41 and if you do not do this, then you will also be blasted.
04:44 So Dr. A.Q. Khan is also talking about this,
04:47 quoting Majid Nizami Sahib.
04:50 Dr. A.Q. Khan, I respect him a lot,
04:54 I have a very old friendship with him,
04:57 now he is not here, so what should be said about this,
05:02 but I do not agree with what he says,
05:05 I said earlier that from the first day,
05:08 Mian Sahib was very clear that we have to do this,
05:10 and I think that Saeed Mehdi Sahib,
05:13 will be able to give his testimony,
05:15 he knows all this,
05:19 and the army chief at that time was also a lawyer,
05:23 you can consult him,
05:25 but this decision is ultimately of the Prime Minister,
05:28 you consult everyone, the decision has to be made by him,
05:31 no one can force him to make a decision,
05:34 nor I think this was such a matter where there was a compulsion,
05:37 and the opinion of the army leadership at that time was that it should be done,
05:42 and they were also convinced like Nawaz Sharif,
05:45 I had no connection with them,
05:48 I have heard some things,
05:51 but those things are through the third party,
05:55 so it will not be appropriate to say,
05:57 if they themselves state what they thought or did not think,
06:01 it did not happen that when Mian Sahib expressed his opinion,
06:04 that we are going to do it, we should do it,
06:06 so there was some opposition from there,
06:09 we have never heard anything like this,
06:11 no, no, no,
06:13 I think this has never happened,
06:16 nor should it have happened,
06:18 nor have I heard anything like this,
06:21 will you congratulate your friend and former leader, Nawaz Sharif,
06:26 that he is the party leader again,
06:28 yes, Mian Sahib has become the head of the Muslim League again,
06:31 and this was his rightful position,
06:33 I hope he will work for the country,
06:36 many congratulations to him,
06:38 thank you very much,
06:39 I'm going to buy some. Thank you very much.