Musharraf seems in no mood to accept mass verdict: Nawaz Sharif
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif said Saturday the ongoing dialogue with the Pakistan People's Party on government formation was preceding in position direction. Addressing a news conference here at the Frontier House, he said he would hold a meeting with PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday to discuses relevant issues. "We will finalize all matters related to formation of government in our meeting," the former prime minister told reporters. The PML-N leader said that restoration of pre-emergency status of the judiciary was top priority of the party and there would no change in this stand. He claimed that President Pervez Musharraf was delaying to call the session of the assemblies and this was creating suspicions. "I smell something foul as the President is not ready to accept the verdict of the masses", he said. Nawaz Sharif said the nation had given its decision on February 18 but the President "is hesitating to accept it". He said the mandate might be a split one but it was undoubtedly against the policies of the President. The President should summon the National Assembly and power should be transferred to the elected representatives of the people, he said. The PML-N leader said that poverty, unemployment and terrorism had increased during the last several years. About Chaudhry Shajaat Hussain's statement predicting new elections soon, Nawaz Sharif said some people had misguided the PML-Q president. Nawaz Sharif said that his brother Shahbaz Sharif would be the Punjab Chief Minister after he was elected to the Punjab assembly through a by-election. He welcomed the statement about Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani that army would stay out of politics and support the elected government.
