Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the generals who violated the constitution and law of the country and the judges who validated their acts were traitors. “General Pervez Musharraf and the judges who supported him should be in court,” Nawaz told reporters at a reception by the Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STPP) chairman at Taraqi Pasand House, Hyderabad.
Nawaz said that for more than 60 years there had been no respect for democracy, and the country’s constitution and law were ripped up like pieces of paper. Judges throughout the country’s history, he said, had validated the generals’ crimes. Nawaz said his government was not allowed to complete its tenure and Musharraf had a personal enmity with him, so he had “made me a target for political victimization.”
Nawaz said everything the country had was at stake. He said the murderers of former premier Benazir Bhutto were not identified. “We will arrest the murderers of Benazir Bhutto after coming to power because the workers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) outside Rawalpindi hospital asked me to promise that we would do so if we came to power. (President Asif Ali) Zardari has failed, but I will do it,” he said.
He said that the PPP had said PML-Quaid was “qatel (murderer) league” and the Chaudhrys had said Zahoor Ilahi was murdered by the PPP, but both parties had now joined ranks. “This is not politics of principles. If such politics continue people will start to say we don’t need democracy like this,” said Nawaz, adding that he would not allow anyone to make the country fed up of democracy.
He said that manifesto of the STPP was the same as the vision of the Quaid-e-Azam.
