Islamabad, Aug. 22 : Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif today said that his party would wait till Wednesday for the sacked judges to be restored.
Denying the the PML-N-PPP coalition was breaking up, he said there was a written deal with Asif Zardari that judges would be restored within 24 hours after Musharraf’s resignation, but this had failed to take place.
In a meeting with Asfandyar Wali and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, he said that it has been decided that a resolution would be drafted for restoration of judges and to declare November 3 measures void.
Washington, Aug 22: PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has said that he would not mind if former president Pervez Musharraf, who toppled his government in a military coup on Oct 12, 1999, left Pakistan to live in-exile in some other country.
“If he wants to go, I won’t stand in his way. He might want to take a break,” the Daily Times quoted Nawaz as saying in an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Washington, Aug 21 : PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has said that his party would move out of the federal coalition government led by the PPP if the sacked judges were not restored, and that as an Opposition his party would not pose any threat to the Government.
In an interview with a US daily, he said that PPP Co-chairman was still not in a mood to restore deposed chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and was adamant on “Minus One Formula” which signified restoring all judges sans Iftikhar.
Washington, Aug 21 : The US administration can build a long lasting working relationship with former Pakistan premier and PML-N Nawaz Sharif, one of the two most powerful leaders in the present day political set up in Pakistan, by investing even half of what Washington had spent over the past one year on saving former president Pervez Musharraf, an article in the Time magazine has said.
Islamabad, Aug 21 : While MQM chief Altaf Hussain, who lives in exile in London, has supported PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s candidature for the post of Pakistan President, former premier Nawaz Sharif’s party the PML-N has said that it needed to be consulted before the name for the next President was proposed by the ruling coalition as it was one of partners.