As he prepares to return to Pakistan on Monday, exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif has said that he would not settle scores with embattled President Pervez Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD: As he prepares to return to Pakistan on Monday, exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif has said that he would not settle scores with embattled President Pervez Musharraf if he came to power but wanted the military dictator to step down from office.
"I don't believe in personal revenge and I have no grudge against Musharraf, but I want him to step down because I can't compromise on Pakistan," Sharif, who was ousted by Musharraf in a military coup in 1999 and reportedly sent to exile a year later, told 'ARY TV' from London.
He said that he wanted the rule of law, supremacy of the Constitution, the people's right to govern, and the end of military dictatorship in the Islamic nation.
The entire civil society want supremacy of Constitution in Pakistan but the President has imposed jungle's law in the country."
Reiterating he believed in national reconciliation and wanted to restore the 1973 Constitution, Sharif told the Dubai-based channel, "I wish Benazir Bhutto had demanded the same because her father passed the 1973 Constitution." Bhutto had recently met Musharraf in the UAE apparently to clinch a power-sharing 'deal' with the President.
In another interview to American news channel, Sharif had recently said, "Whether he gets himself elected in uniform or without uniform he is unacceptable. And this is why the total, the entire civil society, the 160 million people are struggling for."
Apprehending that the government might arrest him on his arrival, the former Prime Minister had said, "If he wants to manufacture cases against me, that is his choice because he doesn't believe in the rule of law, he
doesn't believe in the constitution, ethics, morality. He believes in might is right, he believes in the law of the jungle."
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