PPP leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has advised the PML-N against seeking action against former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa and ex-spymaster retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hamid and not to engage in such confrontations.

The remarks from the senior PPP leader come in the backdrop of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s recent hard-hitting statement, in which he held the two officials responsible for his removal from power in 2017 and the country’s ongoing crises.

(Former) chief justices Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa were tools [of the former army chief and his spy chief]. Their crime is bigger than a murder offence. Giving them pardon will be an injustice to the nation. They don’t deserve pardon, Nawaz said, vowing to hold them accountable.

These ‘characters’ who unleashed economic misery on the people of Pakistan will have to face accountability, he added while delivering an address via a video link from London earlier this month.

Likewise, PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah assailed former generals Bajwa and Hamid earlier this week, declaring them “national criminals” and demanding action against them.

“The way the PML-N brought Gen Pervez Musharraf to justice, it will do the same to [both men],” he said.

Sanaullah sought “strict accountability” of former generals and judges, saying that it was a policy statement on behalf of the party.