Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has denied any deal with the powerful establishment for his return to the country.<\/p>\n
Sharif, 67, who returned from London on Thursday to face he court cases against him, also dismissed the possibility of a technocrats\u2019 government in the country. He had gone to London last month to be with his ailing wife Kulsoom Nawaz who is battling throat cancer.<\/p>\n
He resigned as prime minister in July after the country’s Supreme Court disqualified him over undeclared income. Three cases were registered by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on September 8 against Sharif, his children and son-in-law in the Accountability Court Islamabad, following a verdict by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
In an informal chat with the media, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president yesterday said he would not go for any deal or accept a new National Reconciliation Ordinance to escape trial proceedings, Dawn reported.<\/p>\n
Sharif said that those who had sought the NRO in 2007 might seek another one in 2017, but the PML-N was not interested in any such deal.<\/p>\n
He was referring to a law issued by the then military ruler Pervez Musharraf to quash all cases against former premier Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari.<\/p>\n
Called as NRO, the law was later quashed by the Supreme Court as against the Constitution.<\/p>\n
Sharif said he did not see formation of any technocrats\u2019 government as he had been listening to such rumours for 70 years.<\/p>\n
He said that after the November 3, 2007 emergency imposed by Musharraf, he stood for the cause of independence of the judiciary.<\/p>\n
“I am not the supporter of a judiciary which welcomes dictators, endorses doctrine of necessity and garlands them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sharif also criticised Musharraf who escaped the high treason trial for imposing the emergency and has refused to come back to face trial.<\/p>\n
Musharraf escaped the high treason trial for imposing the emergency as he flew abroad following a Supreme Court verdict and subsequent removal of his name from the exit control list.<\/p>\n
“This is the difference how an elected leader is treated here,” Sharif said.<\/p>\n
Sharif also dismissed reports about differences within the Sharif family, saying that “it’s a wishful thinking of someone, but this desire will never be fulfilled”.<\/p>\n
The political future of Sharif, who leads the country’s most powerful political family and the ruling PML-N party, has been hanging in balance. If convicted, Sharif can be jailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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