October 09, 2006	Monday	Ramazan 15, 1427

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NEW YORK Oct 9. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday hit out at President Pervdez Muharraf and said his book contained only ‘lies and and fabrications’.

“The book should more appropriately be called ‘In the Line of a Liar’,” said Mr Sharif.

Addressing the Pakistan Muslim League-N’s workers via telephone from London (UK) at a party leader’s house in New York, Mr Sharif insisted that he had not been briefed by Gen Musharraf on the Kargil operation, and said that the photograph produced as evidence in the book was nothing more than a briefing on the opening of a new road.

The PML-N leader said that the entire Pakistani nation was against terrorism and not just only (Gen) Musharraf. He said that a democratic government would never have buckled under foreign pressures like Gen Musharraf did on ‘one phone call’.

A democratic government, he said, would have referred the matter to parliament and taken a decision after a debate on the pros and cons of joining the war on terror. Mr Sharif said that Gen Musharraf’s ‘hasty’ decision had brought nothing but misery and chaos to Pakistan, he said.

Nawaz Sharif declared that his party would never enter into a deal or make a compromise with President Gen Pervez Musharraf under any circumstances.

“We have given sacrifices for the nation and we will perservere in our struggle to restore democracy”, Mr Sharif said. “We could have compromised and made life easier for ourselves, but we didn’t and we won’t.”

The PML-N leader said he would meet with PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto in London on Oct 19 to discuss ways and means to advance the commitment made in the ‘Charter for Democracy’ by the two parties.

Mr Sharif reiterated his call to liberate the country from military rule and said: “The time has come for removing the Army from politics.”