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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Ruling coalition hell-bent on destroying SC: Nawaz* PML-N president says new contempt law a blow to democracy
* PPP should consult PML-N, other parties over contempt law
* Graft cases against him have no footings
By Asif Mehmood
LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif accused the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its coalition partners of trying to destroy the Supreme Court.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, the former prime minister also accused the PPP and its allies of destroying Pakistan.
Nawaz said he had sacrificed his government in Sindh for law and order and over the murder of Hakim Muhammad Saeed in Karachi. He also said that he should be given credit for good work, which he carried out during his stint as the prime minister of Pakistan.
The former prime minister said that he had built motorway, where fighter planes like JF-17 Thunder and F-16 could land and take off, signed deal of JF-17 project, invited Indian prime minister, eliminated unemployment and was about to eliminate poverty when his government was toppled by those who were against the development.
While defending Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), he said that they were labelled as a ‘friendly opposition’ and then asked whether friendly oppositions conduct long marches?
Nawaz said democracy was being dealt with a blow through adopting the new contempt of court law, adding that the law was enacted to hide corruption and making few people unaccountable.
“The PPP should not enact the law in haste only to protect a handful of people,” the PML-N chief said, adding that it should sit across on a table with them and other parties and prepare a law through collective wisdom.
Commenting on National Accountability Bureau cases, Nawaz said he was not afraid of bogus cases cooked up by Rehman Malik as they had no footings. To a question on outgoing US ambassador Cameron Munter's statement in which he said that Nawaz Sharif is in favour of America, the PML-N president said, “I don’t know in which context the ambassador has interpreted us. The fact is that we want good relations not only with the United States but also with India and the rest of the word, but not at the cost of Pakistan's sovereignty.”
He said, “In the last four years it would have been easy to topple the PPP government, but we did not want to derail democracy.”
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk