Lahore, July 7ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is following in the footsteps of former dictator General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said.
Nawaz noted that in democratic countries, the president does not keep any party office with himself, but Zardari is following in the footsteps of Musharraf, who was the president, the army chief and the patron of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) at the same time.
The PML-N had advised President Zardari at the very outset to quit the party office, but he did not, Nawaz said in an interview with The Nation.
The two-office controversy could have been ignored if Zardari had shown performance, said the PML-N chief, adding that since the president mismanaged everything, the issue has arisen more vigorously.
"Good governance covers up many weaknesses", said Nawaz, implying that since the president had failed to come up to people's expectations, the matter is not coming to an end.
He recalled that former presidents Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari and Rafiq Tarar had given up their party positions after taking over as heads of state.
When asked whether he would call upon the president to step down as co-chairperson of the party, Nawaz said that this was too small a demand compared to the enormity of the situation. (ANI)
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