Nawaz rules out power sharing with present setup

SANGLA HILL—Quaid Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Former Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that he would have no grief if he lost his life on the way to get rid the nation from dictatorship.
Talking to Party Candidate from Constituency NA 135 Chaudhary Tahir and Candidate Constituency PP-170 Sangla Hill Chaudhary Tariq Mehmood via telephone on Sunday, the Former Prime Minister said, February 18 would be a day of final battle between dictatorship and democracy.
The citizens would reject the candidates of PML-Q during the elections and they would vanish, he said, adding that, the day is not far away when the US puppet rulers would go and there would be rule of people in the country.
The rulers think that they would again re-elect their supporters in the elections through rigging in the elections but they are on mistake, he pointed out. He asked candidates to expedite elections campaign. The Former Prime Minister appealed citizens to cast vote to candidates of his party in the elections for the sovereignty and prosperity of the country. The blood of suicide and bomb blast victims would keep cruel rulers restless, he concluded.
PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has said his party will not share power with president Pervez Musharraf if elected adding the latter will be held accountable for all his wrong doings. “PML-N if elected as majority party will not share power with president Musharraf. It will render him accountable for all his past misdeeds and he will be presented in people’s court”, he said this while addressing a public meeting in Raiwind Sunday.
People are masters of this land and they will avenge on them who led the country to water, power, gas and flour crisis, suspended the judiciary including judges and detained national hero Dr A.Q.Khan , he declared. A sweeping change is to follow February, 18 elections, he held. People will support PML-N and puncture the cycle, he added. World has entered into 2008 but the former regime wanted to take back the people to cycle era, he remarked. “We will provide yellow cab to people if voted to power, he announced.
Inflation was rampant and unemployment had broken the back of common man, he regretted. Pervez Musharraf built palaces for his prime minister and chief ministers but he had not spent a single penny for the uplift of the poor masses, he charged.
He observed rulers were running the country as per US agenda. But we had given no heed to US policies and conducted nuclear blasts. This is not country of generals but it is country of 160 million people, he added. Pervez Musharraf plunged the country into blood bath, he said adding innocent girls were martyred in Lal Masjid. Judiciary and constitution were suspended. No Pakistani will like to support them in the elections, he observed.
Opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif says in an interview with the Monitor that the government is trying to scare the opposition leaders into silence ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 18. The government has asked political leaders to refrain from large gatherings and rallies, saying they may become a target of suicide bombers. The request follows the Dec. 27 assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. As if to underscore the threat, a suicide bomb attack disrupted a Saturday rally of about 200 supporters of the Awami National Party in Charsadda, a town in northwestern Pakistan which is a stronghold for Islamic militants. The attack killed about two dozen people and injured twice as many.
Another rally that day for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), formerly led by Ms. Bhutto, went smoothly. About 100,000 people gathered in the southern city of Thatta, where Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto’s husband who now leads the party, promised to “save” Pakistan.—Online