{"id":14306,"date":"2017-08-17T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14306"},"modified":"2017-08-17T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:38:17","slug":"avoiding-clash-between-institutions-not-my-duty-alone-says-nawaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14306","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding clash between institutions not my duty alone: says Nawaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, August 17 (TNS):<\/strong> Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday claimed that he was not in favour of a clash among state institutions but avoiding such confrontation was not his responsibility alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis not my sole responsibility, it is of all of us,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>BBC Urdu<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>in an interview broadcast on Thursday, reiterating his resolve of not letting the sanctity of the people\u2019s vote be disrespected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are certainly some [generals] with whom I had good relations,\u201d he said. \u201cI never violated the Constitution, have followed the law and do not agree with anyone who does not believe in the supremacy of law and the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz said only former president Pervaiz Musharraf and not the entire army was against him. \u201cWe need to decide the direction of the country and this would only be possible when we respect the sanctity of the vote,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>About his ongoing campaign against the Supreme Court verdict in Panama Papers case, Nawaz said he was not doing so to become a PM again. \u201cThe seat of the PM is not a bed of roses; it is a crown of thorns\u2026becoming a PM itself is a sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he refrained from answering any question about Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, about Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s Asif Zardari, Nawaz said: \u201cI have neither asked him of anything nor do I intend to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that his party did not violate the Charter of Democracy (CoD) even once. \u201cThere has been one violation and that is NRO, which was \u00a0between Musharraf and others. That should not have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, August 17 (TNS): Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday claimed that he was not in favour of a clash among state institutions but avoiding such confrontation was not his responsibility alone. \u201cThis not my sole responsibility, it is of all of us,\u201d he told\u00a0BBC Urdu,\u00a0in an interview broadcast on Thursday, reiterating his resolve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-14306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14308,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14306\/revisions\/14308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}