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Islamabad, Aug 20: True to the apprehensions that the PPP-PML-N coalition might not survive for long after the two parties’ common goal of getting rid of Musharraf was over on Monday, PML-N leader and former premier Nawaz Sharif is learnt to have declared that he would pull out of the four-month-old federal government if the deposed Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was not reinstated within 72 hours (from Tuesday evening).

Lahore, Aug. 16 : A spokesman for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Sadiqul Farooq, has said that providing President Pervez Musharraf with legal guarantees were out of the question.

Farooq said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is of the view that Musharraf should be tried for treason, which carries a maximum punishment of death.

Lahore, Aug 15 : A former British high commissioner in Pakistan reportedly tried to persuade former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif to grant a safe exit to President Pervez Musharraf, here last evening. But, the latter is learnt to have turned down the request, telling the ex-envoy that Musharraf should either resign or face impeachment.

Nawaz told him that three of the four provincial assemblies in the country had already passed resolutions demanding Musharraf to seek vote-of-confidence or face impeachment.

Islamabad, Aug 15: Apparently rejecting the suggestions that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would be given indemnity if he resigns, PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier whose elected government was toppled by Musharraf in Oct 1999 military coup, has said that the President had “trampled” on the country’s constitution and he has to go.

He ruled out the possibilities of any safe passage to the President.

New Delhi, Aug 14: PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has reportedly said that the US was interfering in his country’s internal matter of President Pervez Musharraf’s impeachment.

He said this in an interview with an Indian TV channel in Lahore on Wednesday.

Denying that he was in race for the post of President, Nawaz said in the interview telecast last night that it had been decided between his party and the PPP that the next President should be decided by national consensus.