ISLAMABAD, July 28: PML-N Additional Secretary-General Chaudhry Mohammad Jaafar Iqbal has rejected President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s allegation of corruption against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Mr Iqbal pointed out that the present rulers had not been able to prove even a modicum of corruption against the PML-N Quaid despite intensive investigations.

He said Nawaz Sharif’s performance as prime minister had been spotless. He is the only leader who managed to repay instalments of foreign loans in time despite hard-hitting economic sanctions during his tenure.

He launched a number of mega projects like motorway, modern communications, Gwadar Port, coastal highway, Indus Highway and Nara-Skardu Highway.

He laid foundations of 10 modern hospitals for kidney patients and distributed hundreds of thousands of land among poor Haris and peasants. Nawaz Sharif also spurned intense foreign pressures, and turned Pakistan into a nuclear power.

Jaafar Iqbal said Gen Musharraf’s recent accusations against Nawaz Sharif contradicted his own earlier public admissions that Mr Sharif did not hold any assets abroad, nor any evidence of corruption had been found against him.

“Nawaz Sharif is the most popular leader today due to his achievements and unblemished character. Gen Musharraf and his team are afraid that Nawaz Sharif’s popularity is going to affect the outcome of local bodies elections, and therefore, they have launched a character assassination campaign against the PML-N leader which is bound to fail,” Jaafar Iqbal concluded.