December
31, 2007 Musharraf Will Have
to Go: Sharif By Muhammad Najeeb
Islamabad
Saying that President Pervez Musharraf was the root cause of all
evils in the country and will "have to go", former Pakistan prime
minister Nawaz Sharif Monday demanded his immediate resignation and
announced his party would contest the planned Jan 8 polls.
Musharraf should go without any further delay and "further damage to
the country", said Sharif, head of the Pakistan Muslim League, at a
press conference.
"We have decided to contest the Jan 8 polls but we demand immediate
resignation of Pervez Musharraf before the elections," he said. On
Thursday, Sharif had announced boycott of the polls following the
slaying of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Benazir Bhutto,
another former prime minister.
He said he had announced boycott to show solidarity with the PPP
after the killing of Bhutto. "But after PPP has decided to go for
polls and also requested us to contest the elections, we have
decided to go for the Jan 8 polls," said Sharif, who returned to the
country last month after more than seven years in forced exile in
Saudi Arabia and London.
Sharif who has been barred by the government to contest the
elections is leading his party and has fielded candidates throughout
the country in elections for national and provincial assemblies.
He said the government was looking for excuses to postpone the
elections as it "suits Musharraf and his cronies".
"He (Musharraf) just wants continuation in power, nothing is dear to
him except his own interest to stay in power," said Sharif, adding
that Musharraf himself is a problem and can't be the solution.
Now "Musharraf will have to go". "Rather he's on his way out, he
can't be saved any more," said Sharif about Musharraf, who last
month took oath as president for another five years after quitting
as army chief.
He said Bhutto was a great leader and had said minutes before her
assassination that she would continue struggling to establish
democracy in the country.
Asked whether he would work with Musharraf if voted to power, Sharif
said that it was "impossible to work with a man who had subverted
the constitution, who had sacked an elected government and who had
slaughtered the judiciary?"
On Bhutto's murder, he said that she herself had named people who
could be behind her murder. "I don't want to say anything when she
herself has said it... you may read her letter with her spokesman in
Washington, Mark Siegel."
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