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PML-N demands Zardari to make secret deal with Musharraf public | The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has demanded President Asif Ali Zardari to make public the documents regarding the secret deal with his predecessor General Pervez Musharraf, allowing him a safe exit from the country. Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly
(NA) Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the PML-N would move motions in the Senate and
the NA against Zardari for making a covert deal with Musharraf. "It's a mind-boggling
statement... we demand that Zardari make the details of this deal public. Zardari
should disclose the 'international stakeholders' involved in brokering the deal
seeking indemnity for General Pervez Musharraf. The nation should be told who
agreed to give the former military dictator safe passage," Khan said. Interacting
with media persons at Parliament House here, Khan said Zardari's disclosure that
he too was a part of the agreement is a "serious breach of the country's sovereignty,
independence and self-respect". "While all this 'political wheeling and dealing'
was going on, Zardari had not yet become president, which showed that he became
the president with the support of international actors under the same deal," The
Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying. Shocked by Zardari's disclosure, PML-N chief
Nawaz Sharif has said the President should have taken his party into confidence
as a coalition partner before making such statements. Responding to a question,
Sharif said if Zardari had consulted him before revealing the deal, he would have
then "tried to guide him in the right direction and would have reminded him of
the treatment meted out to the country, democracy and even to his party and its
leadership". Sharif questioned Zardari's involvement in the deal, asking under
what capacity he became a party in the agreement as he had not assumed the charge
of President then. "Popular leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in the tenure
of Pervez Musharraf, then how Asif Zardari became party in giving safe passage
to Musharraf," Sharif asked. |
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