LAHORE, Oct 30: PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif has condemned the attack on a madrassah in Bajaur where 80 people were killed, and said the people should no longer allow a truculent dictator to continue killing their fellow citizens for his survival.

In a statement released from London on Monday, Mr Sharif said no Pakistani military or civilian ruler in history had more blood on his hands than the present dictator whose survival it seemed depended upon continuously shedding the blood of his fellow citizens.

He said earlier in 1971 Gen Yahya Khan had killed his fellow citizens in East Pakistan in the same manner.

Mr Sharif questioned why was it that those generals who violated the Constitution and usurped power had to then resort to murdering their own people in order to survive? He called upon the people to ask themselves what sort of a country Pakistan had become where an illegal ruler was murdering his own people, and there was no one to hold him accountable?

He said if the people wanted to save Pakistan, they would have to hold this illegitimate dictator accountable now.