ABBOTTABAD, May 24: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that the decision about his return to the country will be made by a high-level committee of the party.

He was speaking at the PML-N Abbottabad District Workers Convention on Wednesday on telephone from the UK. The convention was held at the Bar Club and largely attended by party workers.

Mr Sharif said that the days of the present government had been numbered and the Charter of Democracy, recently signed by him and Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto in London, was the last nail in the coffin of the government.

He said that the government had failed to deliver and asked the people to support opposition parties against the government.

He said that despite negative tactics, the government could not have proved a single charge of corruption against him.

He said that the country was being ruled by generals and instead of improving the country’s defence, the government is busy in making the country a ‘Defence Housing Society.’

Criticising the foreign policy of the government, Mr Sharif said that the Kashmir cause had been harmed by the rulers.

Speaking on the occasion, Senator Mehtab Ahmed said that the peoples wanted an end to their deprivation and they were not willing to give more time to the government.

As the government had no roots in the masses, it was least interested in their welfare, he said.

Sabir Shah asked party workers to gear up their efforts for restoration of democracy.

He said that there was no place for turncoats in the PML-N and added that those who had left the party in hard times would not be accepted again.

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