Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif's stunning admission on the deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks has put a lot of pressure on the Pakistani establishment to come clean on the issue. Sharif's statement caught the administration off-guard as well as received a lot of criticism in Pakistan.

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This is what the former Pakistan PM had said:

“We have isolated ourselves. Despite making sacrifices, our narrative is not being accepted. Afghanistan's narrative is being accepted, but ours is not. We must look into it. Militant organisations are active. Call them non-state actors — should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can't we complete the trial?” Sharif had said on Friday.

His party, however, claimed that his comments were misinterpreted and that the media had lent credence to the already well-known fact about the Mumbai attacks.

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Responding to the critics, PML-N spokesperson said that Sharif, its supreme leader, and the party, "need no certificate from anybody on their commitment and capacity to preserve, protect and promote Pakistan's national security".

"After all, it was Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who, resisting all pressures, took the most important and most difficult decision on national security in Pakistan's history by making the country a nuclear power in May 1998," it said.

His comments, however, might incur the wrath of the military as the National Security Committee is set to meet this week to discuss the statements made by Sharif. 

The National Security Committee will look into the statements which came surprisingly after reports showed that the Pakistan PM may have diverted funds to India after the courts went after his family's assets. With these damning statements, which go against the Pakistan narrative, the political future of Nawaz Sharif looks incredibly bleak.