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PML-N plans
out Sharifs return
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD—PML-N central leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said
announcement for arrival flight of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif will
be made on September, 8 evening.
He said this while addressing a press conference here in PML-N central
secretariat Tuesday along with party information secretary Ahsan Iqbal.
Chaudhry Nisar told two flights of PIA and British Air ways would come
to Pakistan in the early hours of September 10. “ There is no
possibility of Nawaz Sharif return to Pakistan by these flights as we
can not take risk of PIA”, he told. A group of 100 persons including
media men has to accompany Nawaz Sharif. Civil Aviation Authority was
contacted for chartering plane but booking has been made on other
flights due to pretexts and excuses offered by the authority.
Chaudhry Nisar alleged over 300 soldiers were missing since the last
five days despite the fact they were armed and were patrolling in the
form convoy. They could fight with the help of weapons for several days
but they have disappeared. What a joke is it with nation, he questioned.
He alleged Director General ISI has gone to London for striking deal to
save the rule and uniform of general Musharraf rather than taking
measures to search out these soldiers. Pakistan army is a professional
army and it has a say across the world. But some generals are maligning
the army for their personal gains, he added.
The whole Pakistan knows about the “gallantry” of Sheikh Rashid and
marks of his tears are still imprinted on the car of Shahbaz Sharif he
had shed on non allocation of ministry to him for the firs time, he
underlined.
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will leave for Islamabad from Manchester
instead of London, sources said on Tuesday. He will arrive here at
Islamabad Airport at about 11:30 am instead of 11:00 am.
Sources said that the Sharif brothers would travel via Air Blue Flight,
which would arrive in Islamabad from Manchester at 11:30 am. It is
pertinent to note that the owner of the Air Blue Flight, Shahid Khaqan
Abbasi is one of most important PML-N leaders, and a close aide of Mian
Nawaz Sharif. PML-N Sources said that Mian Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz
Sharif are formulating the strategy regarding their return to home on
daily basis.
Ruling out any compromise with President Pervez Musharraf, exiled former
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to oust the military dictator from
power in the next six weeks. “His tenure ends on October 15 and he (Musharraf)
has no constitutional right to remain. I hope to force him to step down
by October 15,” ‘The Times’ reported here today, quoting Sharif — who
prepares to return to his home country from “forced” exile next week —
as saying.
The deposed Premier, who was ousted in a military coup in 1999, said
that after returning to the country on Sept 10, he would lead his
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in a campaign to force Musharraf to quit as
President by October 15 as well as blocking the dictator’s attempt to
seek re-election. Subsequently, he said, the chief of the Senate would
take over as the Acting President and hold elections for a new
Parliament, which would then vote in for a new President for a five-year
term. Sharif has a second plan too. If he’s arrested on arrival as
“threatened” by Pakistani government, the former Prime Minister said
that his party would hold “big, massive rallies” to force the military
ruler to back down.
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