Nawaz ‘is man of Establishment’

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The chairman of the PPP’s Foreign Liaison Committee, Prof. Ejazul Hasan, on Sunday criticised PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif for what he called his anti-democracy posture and also accused him of committing violation of the Charter of Democracy.

Addressing a news conference at Cosmopolitan Club here, the PPP leader alleged that PML-N leader was showing sheer disrespect to democratic norms only to come to power through back doors. He was accompanied by local party leaders including Aurangzeb Burki, Hafeez Malik, Dr Hasnaat Shah, Arshad Ghurki and Afnan Butt on the occasion.

Prof Ejaz believed that Mian Nawaz Sharif had become impatient to come to power and had started conspiring against democracy in collaboration with the Establishment to achieve his ends. “He (Nawaz) first brought Musharraf into power through his follies, and now again, he is conspiring against democracy to bring another ‘Pervez Musharraf’,” he added. Talking about court cases against Asif Ali Zardari, he said that Nawaz Sharif had himself admitted in the past that he had constituted fake corruption cases against Zardari under pressure from the Army and the ISI, and for which, both Nawaz and Saifur Rehman also sought forgiveness from the PPP Co-chairman.

He also accused Nawaz Sharif of deviating from his earlier stance on immunity to the president, saying that he was doing all this on behest of Establishment. Ejaz further alleged that PML-N leader had moved the Supreme Court on memo issue as representative of the Establishment, and said that this act of his was enough to prove that he was still following the thinking of dictator, Ziaul Haq.

The PPP leader said those who laid the foundation of corruption and horse-trading were now posing themselves as innocents. He alleged that after failing to de-rail the democracy, the PML-N had now taken back its decision to resign from assemblies, and PPP welcomed it.