Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has said he will try to establish a working relationship with President Asif Ali Zardari if he becomes the country’s next prime minister.
In an interview with a private TV channel, Nawaz said the PPP was going out of power in the next elections, but it was a good sign that a democratic government was completing its five-year tenure without the umbrella of the army.
Nawaz said a unanimously-elected caretaker prime minister, such as Chief Election Commission Fakhruddin G Ibrahim, was also possible.
He said sometimes Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif gave harsh statements which he should avoid.
Nawaz said institutions had been destroyed but the government was moving forward instead of mending its ways, adding that the people of Karachi had complaints against “one specific party”.
“I was the one who had dissolved the provincial government in Sindh when the MQM had refused to hand over the killers of Hakim Saeed to us,” he said, adding, “We had asked the MQM to hand over the killers to us but when they refused, the PML-N dissolved its coalition government headed by Liaqaut Ali Jatoi.”
He said the government was ignoring all problems facing the country at the moment. The PML-N leader said Interior Minister Rehman Malik was saying that a third force was involved in Karachi even though, the Supreme Court had named the parties which had armed wings in the city.
Nawaz said Malik had not implemented the SC verdict, adding that none of the people involved in the targeted killings had been arrested.
He said the alliance of the government had given huge problems to the country, such as electricity load shedding, unemployment, extortion and corruption.
“Ineligible people are being appointed in government offices and police in Karachi,” he said, adding that the recruitments should be made on merit.
Nawaz said after the elections “I will summon all the stakeholders and will seek the solution to the Karachi problem”.
He said there should be a neutral force which should work on merit, adding that banning motorcycle riding and suspending mobile service was not the solution to terrorism. The PML-N president said if the SC wanted to abolish military courts in Karachi, it should have given a solution to the problem too, adding that a prime minister could not do everything.
Nawaz said an alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami had been proposed, adding that “this is our desire but obviously it will be done if the JI wants it too”. He said no alliance could be established unilaterally. He said he had no personal enmity with the Chaudhrys. Nawaz said the propaganda for delaying the next elections should be stopped. He said deployment of the army in Balochistan would send a negative message to the Baloch people.
As PM, Nawaz Sharif will work with President Zardari
