LONDON, March 30: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has accused the Musharraf regime of weakening the institutional foundations of the state by making all of them redundant one by one over the last seven years and rendering them totally dysfunctional.

In a statement issued here on Friday from the international headquarters of the PML-N, Mr Sharif recalled that the regime had received over $10 billion in aid from the US since 2001 and that over $50 billion was injected in the economy due to post-9/11 reversal in flow of funds and said these funds had been squandered.

“Neither there has been any visible improvement in the institutional governance of the country nor in the infrastructure; the state structure is crumbling due to one-man rule in the country and the judiciary, parliament and executive have been destroyed by this one-man rule,” the statement said.

This policy, he said, had destroyed both the civil structures and military’s professionalism and the army had now become the target of suicide attacks inside the country, which he thought was unprecedented.

Mr Sharif, who also met the office-bearers of ARD component parties at the PML-N London secretariat on Friday, said the recent wave of protest by people was broad based and had turned the tide against president both inside and outside the country.