Islamabad March 27 (TNS): Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that he does not look at the umpire to raise his finger but instead he believed in the people’s ballot.
Talking to the media inside the trial court, where he along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar appeared in the Avenfiled property case, said that he was closely watching the recent interview of the chief justice and a newspaper article detailing the army chief’s doctrine of reconciliation with neighbours.
The former premier also rebuffed the report about former military dictator Pervez Musharraf’s return to the country, calling him a liar and a coward, who according to him, first took shelter in a hospital before fleeing the country making the excuse of treatment abroad.
Sharif said that the former dictator would raise his first claiming he (Nawaz) and the late Benazir Bhutto would not return to the country, but today, he himself has vanished from the scene while “I am here with my daughter to face court cases”.
He said that he was paying the price for democracy and “today, he was unable to make decisions and it were ‘they’ who call the sot these days”.
The former premier also regretted to push through the Memogate scandal against the PPP government and former ambassador Husain Haqqani.
He said that he has discussed about the caretaker set up with the prime minister and they want the elections to be held on time.
