Nawaz rules out en masse resignations

Ruling out en-bloc resignations from the parliament and provincial assemblies, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif said his party would resume its “Go Zardari Go” movement from Sindh with greater enthusiasm, adding that there should be no clash between state institutions.
Talking to reporters after presiding over a meeting of his party leadership at Jati Umra, Nawaz said the government, not democracy, was failing. He said the Supreme Court had been moved on the “memogate” issue because the current government had made the parliament ineffective.
He said the option of resigning from the assemblies would not be workable unless other parties joined the move. The PML-N decided that Nawaz would resume the “Go Zardari Go” movement from Larkana today (Saturday).
The party meeting also discussed initiating contacts with Sindhi nationalist parties to bring them to mainstream politics. Nawaz said the PPP would not be allowed to play the Sindh card and the PML-N would fight for the right of Sindhis.
PML-N mulling PM’s request for son’s by-poll contest: Meanwhile, Online news agency reported that Nawaz had referred a request of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, to not field any PML-N candidate against his son Musa Ali Gilani in the by-election, to the party’s consensus committee.
Sources said the prime minister had especially telephoned Nawaz yesterday to inform the PML-N president that he desired his son, Musa Gilani, to contest the NA-148 by-polls on a seat vacated by former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and wished for Musa’s “unopposed victory”. While expressing his inability to decide the issue on his own, Nawaz said he could only make a decision according to the party’s consensus.
Nawaz is said to have summoned Multan-based party leaders, including Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Rana Mahmoodul Hasan and others for consensus over the issue.