HARIPUR, Aug 24: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) provincial chief Pir Sabir Shah has said the country is virtually being run by a single person and termed the government of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali as a puppet in the hands of President Gen Pervez Musharraf.

Talking to reporters here on Sunday, he said: “Present political situation calls for sending of Jamali-led inept and powerless government home as there is no other solution to the current crisis.”

He said that it was time to pack up for the Jamali-led government.

The PML-N leader said the president with an army cap had undemocratically made the entire system of the country subservient to him rendering an elected government ineffective and powerless.

The former NWFP chief minister, commenting on the National Assembly’s proceedings of the last two sessions, said parliament was being run in a way which was abhorred in the democratic world and would cause unpredictable loss.

However, he stressed the need of masses’ awareness from the platform of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy.

About foreign policy, Mr Shah said that President Musharraf had in pursuit of his personal interests caused irreparable loss to the country by making it a US colony. He alleged that Muslims with strong faith in God were being handed over to the US and portrayed as Al Qaeda members.

Attributing the tension on western border to the ill conceived Afghan policies of one man, Mr Shah said that Pakistan was bearing the brunt of pro-American policies.